On 10-12 December 2019 the High Court is hearing a judicial review challenging substantial and systematic delays by the Home office in deciding asylum applications made by unaccompanied children. Statistics show that applications by unaccompanied children have routinely taken well in excess of a year to...
The High Court has today decided that the Home Office’s approach to protecting victims of trafficking is unlawful. The test case was brought by two victims of trafficking, who challenged the Home Office’s policy of refusing to grant them leave to remain in the UK until...
Deighton Pierce Glynn has been shortlisted by the Legal 500 for the specialism firm of the year award. The recognition for our client’s administrative and public law cases highlights the importance of this area of law in holding the executive to account at a time...
In a judgment handed down today the High Court has ruled that Kingston Council is liable to local authority tenants for water overcharges dating back to 1 April 2002. The impact of today’s result could be felt in millions of pounds of refunds to council tenants...
Connie N. Maina Sozi, Partner at Deighton Pierce Glynn, will be a panel member at this conference in Strathmore University’s Law School, Nairobi, on 28 and 29 November 2019. The original Bandung Conference was held in Indonesia in 1955. The first of its kind, it...
Following court action, the Metropolitan Police has agreed to delete information relating to a referral of a primary school age child under the government’s PREVENT programme. The other referring authorities also agreed to correct and delete the relevant records. DPG’s client was concerned that the records...
On Friday 15th November, the High Court ruled as unlawful the Home Office policy relating to victims of trafficking seeking a reconsideration of a negative decision, which restricted those requests only via a First Responder or Support Provider. Now the Home Office has agreed that...
We are delighted that The Times has recognised DPG’s work to challenge state bodies by listing us in the top 200 Best Law Firms for 2020. There are couple of points we would like to clarify. As well as high profile cases, we also act for...
On 10 May 2018 the Home Office confirmed that our client, Hubert Howard, had indefinite leave to remain (settled status) and had held that status since 1 January 1973. Hubert entered the UK with his mother in November 1960 at the age of 3. He had...
The Government has at long last announced a public inquiry into the human rights abuses at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. The Home Secretary made the announcement to Parliament yesterday that the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman investigation of Brook House is converted to a statutory...