The High Court has ordered, by agreement, that DPG client Gilberto Torres’ claim for damages in respect of his kidnap, imprisonment against BP and 6 other related oil companies, should end with no payment of costs. Gilberto Torres, the Colombian trade unionist who has kidnapped and...
DPG’s Louise Whitfield explains why anti-abortion protestors may be committing criminal offences as their actions could amount to harassment and/or using threatening words or behaviour. Louise has been providing advice on the need for buffer zones around abortion clinics to protect women patients from anti-abortion protestors...
The legal challenge to the Government’s decision to award the contract for operating the national discrimination advice helpline to G4S, a large multi-national corporation, is to be heard in the High Court on 29 September 2016. The national network of law centres, represented by Deighton Pierce...
Jane Deighton was on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning talking about whether the positive results of the use police body cameras can be relied upon if the police knew that there were part of a study. Jane's interview can be heard here from...
On 15 September, the National AIDS Trust will defend the appeal being brought by the Government following NAT’s recent High Court win, that NHS England does have the power to fund crucial HIV drugs. On 2 August 2016, the High Court decided that NHS England’s controversial decision that...
Deighton Pierce Glynn act for The Law Centres Network (LCN) in a legal challenge to the Government’s decision to award the contract for operating the national discrimination advice helpline to G4S, a large multi-national corporation. LCN argue that the government did not properly assess the shortcomings...
Ray Johnson, father of Elliott Johnson, has written to the Patrick McLoughlin in response to the summary of the investigation Conservative Party bullying released by the party last week. He expressed the concern and disappointment of the family, and called again for the full report...
BBC London has reported on the further developments in DPG’s Southwark water overcharging case in their evening and late TV news bulletins on 23 August 2016. Southwark Council is now in the process of paying back £28 million to 74,000 tenants who were overcharged. However, in...
Court papers have been filed to begin the third round of legal action to save an allotment site in Watford from development, in a case that is likely to have national ramifications for allotment protection. For the third time, the Secretary of State for Communities and...
The Conservative Party have released a summary of a report into allegations of bullying, harassment and inappropriate behaviour following the death of Conservative activist Elliott Johnson in September 2015. An inquest earlier this year a Coroner ruled that Elliott had committed suicide. He left notes to...