12 July 2023: The High Court of Justice will today hear applications for permission to proceed with judicial review claims brought against the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, challenging plans to set...
The Under Cover Policing Inquiry’s first interim report finds that the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) unit of the Metropolitan Police, which spied mainly on left-wing activists should have been disbanded soon after it was established in 1968. It in fact they continued to use these...
23 June 2023: The Court of Appeal today dismissed Braintree District Council’s appeal against the refusal of their application for an injunction to prevent the development of an asylum seeker accommodation centre at Wethersfield airfield. The Court considered: 1. Whether the Council has jurisdiction to...
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush. We honour the Windrush Generation and their descendants, whose impact on the social, cultural and political landscape in the UK is immeasurable. It is important that we pause to celebrate this; particularly as, since...
On 12 June, the Court of Appeal will hear the appeal of Braintree District Council against the High Court judgment rejecting their planning challenge to the proposed accommodation of 1,700 asylum seekers at Wethersfield airfield. Their opponents are the Home Secretary and the Secretary of...
The Court of Appeal has granted our client, local Braintree resident Gabriel Clarke-Holland, permission to intervene in the Braintree District Council planning appeal brought against the Home Secretary. The appeal relates to the Home Secretary’s plan to accommodate up to 1,700 asylum seekers at Wethersfield...
The Wethersfield and Scampton accommodation centre judicial review cases will be considered by a senior planning judge on 12 and 13 July 2023 to decide whether permission should be granted for the claims to continue to a full hearing. On 27 April 2023, our client, Gabriel...
Local Braintree resident, Gabriel Clarke-Holland, yesterday (27 April 2023) applied to the High Court for a judicial review of the decision by the Home Secretary to use Wethersfield airfield as a large scale asylum accommodation centre. He will also challenge a related environmental screening decision...
DPG has been instructed to advise in relation to a potential challenge to the Home Office’s proposal to house 1,500 asylum seekers in military 'camp' style accommodation in a remote RAF airfield. Our client is a local resident who has lived in Wethersfield since childhood and...
A judicial review of the flawed operation of the Child Maintenance Service – the government programme responsible for the collection and payment of child maintenance between separated parents – has been granted permission for judicial review at a hearing in the High Court. The case –...