In an important win for access to justice, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission has ruled that it has the power to award costs against the Home Office in judicial review applications. DPG’s client, FGF, challenged the Home Secretary’s refusal of his application for citizenship. Because...
On 27-29 February 2024, the High Court will be hearing the case of Parkes v Dorset Council, AC-2023-LON-003033 to determine whether Dorset Council has the power to enforce planning authority over the Bibby Stockholm barge. Our client is Ms Parkes, a local resident and Mayor of...
The High Court has rejected the University of Bristol’s appeal against an earlier judgment that it contributed to the death of a student by discriminating against her. Natasha Abrahart took her own life on 30 April 2018, the day that she was due to give a...
At 10:45am on Wednesday 14 February 2024 the High Court will release its judgment in a long running case against the University of Bristol brought by the father of Natasha Abrahart, an undergraduate student who took her own life in 2018. Natasha’s parents, Robert and...
Kane Boyce died a self-inflicted death at HMP Lowdham Grange on 3 October 2021. An inquest found that multiple failures by prison staff probably contributed to his death. Now a coroner has raised serious concerns about the risk of future deaths at the prison. Before HM...
Our client, a pregnant woman with a 2 year old child, made an application for a judicial review of the Home Office’s refusal to increase the rate of additional payments made to pregnant women and their children under 3 years old. These payments, made under...
On Wednesday, Ritchie J handed down judgment in R (Dunne) v IOPC & Officer TP7 [2023] EWHC 3300 (Admin), a judicial review claim arising from the use of near-fatal force against Francis Dunne by TP7 (a police firearms officer). He found that the investigation breached...
In a judgment today (15 December 2023) the High Court has rejected a judicial review claim brought by four single mothers and/or their children challenging years of delays and inefficiencies in their Child Maintenance Service (“CMS”) cases that have deprived them of thousands of pounds...
The High Court has ordered that there will be a final hearing from 27-29 February 2024 in our client’s challenge to Dorset Council’s ongoing decision that it has no planning jurisdiction over the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland Harbour. This will be a “rolled-up” hearing,...
The High Court of Justice has today handed down judgment dismissing claims against the Home and Levelling Up Secretaries by our client Gabriel Clarke-Holland, and by Braintree District Council and West Lindsey District Council, that challenged plans to set up asylum accommodation centres to house...