MA v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CO/2710/2017); BB v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CO/382/2018). The High Court is to rule on whether the Home Office’s poor response to the appalling mistreatment of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, exposed...
The Law Society Gazette have published an article titled 'Home Truths' exploring the uneven response of the law to domestic violence. It considers some of the advances made in the context of inquests and civil claims against the state, with insight from Deighton Pierce Glynn’s...
09/04/19 - The Court of Appeal will today begin hearing a landmark appeal brought by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) against the Secretary of State for International Trade challenging the government’s ongoing failure to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia for possible use in the...
Before HM Assistant Coroner Richard Furniss West London Coroner’s Court 11-25 March 2019 The inquest into the death of Tarek Chowdhury, 64, concluded yesterday, with the jury finding that failings in the immigration detention system contributed to the killing. Mr Chowdhury was unlawfully killed by Zana...
On Tuesday 26 March 2019 the High Court will hear a challenge to the legality of the Government’s powers to make Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) that would allow pharmacists to alter prescriptions for people with serious medical conditions, such as epilepsy, in the event of...
The Good Law Project has today issued judicial review proceedings challenging the legality of the Government’s powers to make Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) that would allow pharmacists to alter prescriptions for people with serious medical conditions, such as epilepsy, in the event of medicines shortages. Details...
The Good Law Project has today threatened to issue judicial review proceedings unless the Government withdraws powers to make Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) that would allow pharmacists to alter prescriptions for people with serious medical conditions, such as epilepsy, in the event of medicines shortages. The...
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) to hear expert evidence about the extent to which British institutions have failed in their duty to protect children abroad. This week marks the beginning of the Inquiry’s public hearings into this as part of the second phase...
Our client, a Windrush migrant was scheduled to be removed on the Charter flight to Jamaica today, 6 February 2019. Our client’s removal has been stayed but 35 (originally 51) others have been removed. For all we know some of those removed may have been...
We are delighted that today two of the trainees at DPG are qualifying as solicitors. Amalia King and Robyn Taylor have both successfully completed their training at DPG and been offered permanent positions as solicitors here. Amalia King: Before joining DPG, Amalia was a welfare rights advisor...