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Inquest concludes death contributed to by failings of mental health services

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20 July, 2018

Sheffield City Council Concedes on Strip Clubs Policy Challenge

Sheffield woman Irene, has won in her challenge on the lawfulness of the City Council’s decision to adopt a policy of licensing unlimited strip clubs. She argued that they had failed to discharge their public sector equality duty and properly consider the results of their...

29 June, 2018

Supreme Court rules on civil partnerships: discrimination must end immediately

Our clients, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, have won their Supreme Court case to establish that the lack of civil partnerships for opposite-sex couples is unlawful and a breach of their human rights. In a judgment handed down today (27 June 2018), the Supreme Court unanimously...

27 June, 2018

PrEP legal battle to feature on BBC on Wednesday night

At 9pm on 27 June 2018 BBC2 will screen an hour-long documentary on the battle by campaigners and organisations for the NHS to fund PrEP. The case brought by National AIDS Trust with our help will be featured, along with interviews with our lawyers. On 2...

26 June, 2018

Good Law Project – Judicial Review against the Electoral Commission

DPG is instructed by the Good Law Project in this claim. The final hearing of the judicial review claim against the Electoral Commission is being heard by the Divisional Court today. The claim started off challenging the Electoral Commission’s decision not to investigate whether Vote Leave...

19 June, 2018

Hospital Drops Parking Charges for Blue Badge Holders

Hospital Trust suspends car park charges for blue badge holders following claim for judicial review. Kingston Hospital Trust has conceded a claim for judicial review brought by a severely disabled man, AS, challenging the introduction of hospital car parking charges for blue badge holders. AS suffers...

12 June, 2018

Supreme Court finds that Northern Ireland abortion law is incompatible with the Human Rights Act

In a judgment handed down by the Supreme Court it was found that Northern Ireland’s current laws prohibiting abortion are incompatible with Human Rights Act in so far as they fail to provide an exception for terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, rape and...

07 June, 2018

Jury finds that Mark Kentish died after “inappropriate restraint”

After six days of evidence at Gloucestershire Coroner’s Court an inquest jury concluded that “inappropriate” restraint by security staff at Stowfield Business Park near Lydbrook contributed to the death of Mark Kentish, a 55 year old father of six, on 23 June 2016. The previous day...

06 June, 2018

High Court Grants DPG Permission to Challenge Home Secretary’s Response To Brook House Abuse

Our client (“BB”) has today been granted permission by the High Court for his judicial review of the Home Secretary’s refusal to announce a public inquiry in to abuse of detainees at G4S-run Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. BB is a former detainee of Brook House...

22 May, 2018

DPG To Continue Brook House Challenge In High Court Permission Hearing Tomorrow

We are in the High Court on Tuesday seeking permission to continue our judicial review challenging the Home Secretary’s refusal to announce an independent public inquiry in to the widespread abuse revealed at G4S-run Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. In September 2017, the BBC aired its...

21 May, 2018

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