The Good Law Project’s court action against the Electoral Commission has resulted in a turnaround by the Commission who has agreed to investigate Vote Leave, Darren Grimes & Veterans for Britain spending on the Referendum for possible offences. Jolyon Maugham instructing Polly Glynn of Deighton...
Since May 2016 the Home Office has designated rough sleeping EEA nationals as abusing their EU law free movement rights. The High Court will examine whether this is legally correct at 3 day hearing starting on 21 November 2017. DPG partner Zubier Yazdani has been instructed by...
Inquest jury finds multiple failings led to the death of Jason Basalat at HMP Woodhill on 11 December 2016. Jason was the last of 7 men to take their own lives in HMP Woodhill in 2016. The jury at the inquest into his death today concluded...
The High Court ruled that the Home Office had acted unlawfully in the way in which they detailed and tried to remove a victim of trafficking from the UK in advance of his immigration appeal. They continued detaining him despite agreeing that he should be...
The European Court of Human Rights is holding a relatively rare oral hearing in a case brought by four DPG clients - Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, English PEN and Dr Constanze Kurz – alongside other organisations challenging UK government internet surveillance programmes. On Tuesday...
The Oil Justice Project is holding a free event at SOAS on 13 November 2017 from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Big oil companies are devastating communities across the world. Their operations have forced people from their land, polluted the environment, and led to widespread human rights violations. In...
The Information Tribunal will hear the appeal of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones against successive refusals of the Ministry of Defence and the Information Commissioner to disclose documents regarding the massive expansion of a United States military base: RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire. The...
Zubier Yazdani & Dan Carey of DPG acting on behalf of Kalyaan, and funded by the Strategic Legal Fund intervened in this important appeal. Today, on Anti-Slavery day 2017, the Supreme Court has allowed the appeal of a victim of human trafficking - Ms Cherrylyn Reyes...
Louise Whitfield of Deighton Pierce Glynn, acting on behalf of Humanists UK and humanist representative and local parent Kathy Riddick, led a successful challenge of the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s decision to exclude Ms Riddick from membership of its standing advisory council on religious education...
DPG solicitor Jo Eggleton has been shortlisted by Liberty for their 2017 Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award. She has been nominated for her work with the families of nine of the 17 people who have died since May 2013 at HMP Woodhill. Jo...