Unkha Banda has been selected to participate in the hugely prestigious US Government International Visitor Leadership Program on Strategic Litigation for Social Change. The project was designed by U.S. Embassy London to support practitioners in the UK in developing a better understanding of how legal...
Robert Fenlon, 36, died a self-inflicted death whilst on remand at Woodhill prison on 5 March 2016. Now an inquest jury has concluded that the reprehensible failures by two senior prison officers involved amounted to unlawful killing by gross negligence manslaughter. This is the first...
Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors are acting for Trevor Donald, in a judicial review claim, taking place tomorrow, 23 April to 24 April 2024 in the High Court before Mrs Justice Heather Williams. The claim concerns the recommendations made by Wendy Williams, the Windrush Lessons Learned Review...
The Court of Appeal has allowed our clients’ appeal against a High Court judgment that rejected their compensation claims made after the Home Office left them destitute for prolonged periods due to the NRPF condition. On 18 April 2024 the Court of Appeal handed down its...
27 February 2024: Four asylum seekers who issued claims for judicial review against the Home Secretary after being accommodated at the controversial military site, RAF Wethersfield, have today been selected as lead claimants and granted permission to proceed with their claims to trial in July...
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...