For the third time, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has agreed that Watford Council can appropriate the Farm Terrace Allotment site for a development, despite two previous decisions having been quashed by the High Court after the plot-holders challenged them. The...
Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Kiedan will have their appeal heard over two days to try to change the law so that they can have a civil partnership. Under current UK law, all couples have the right to marry, however only same-sex couples can form civil partnerships....
Our client, David Cary, was on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning talking about his 9 year legal battle against the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCC). David’s interview can be heard here from 02:45:25. The full story...
David Cary has secured an impressive victory in his 9 year legal battle against the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCC). The trial of the Commissioner of Police that was due to start today November 1 has been vacated. Mr Cary...
There have already been six apparently self-inflicted deaths in HMP Woodhill this year. That is the highest rate in the entire prison estate and is about one every 45 days. There were five such deaths in the prison in 2015, again the highest number in...
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...