Mid Kent and Medway Coroner’s Court Archbishops Palace, Mill Street, Maidstone, ME15 6YE Before Assistant Coroner Ian Wade QC 40 year old Michael Cook, from London, was found hanging in his cell in HMP Elmley on 22 March 2014. The inquest into his death will be heard before...
The Home Office and the Police are cracking down on EEA nationals in the UK under an unpublished policy. DPG has been instructed by the AIRE centre to advise on challenging Operation Nexus which is supposed to be used to by the Home Office and Police to...
In an important decision handed down on 27 April 2016, the Supreme Court has provided positive new guidance on how the Home Office should assess whether the detention of mentally ill foreign nationals is being satisfactorily managed. The appeal to the Supreme Court was brought by...
A High Court ruling has established that hundreds of thousands of tenants have been overcharged for water and sewerage. Lawyers say that affected tenants will be entitled to refunds running to hundreds if not thousands of pounds. As reported by the BBC, the test case was...
Our client, the National Aids Trust (NAT) has forced NHS England, which was facing a judicial review of its decision, to rethink its controversial decision to shelve plans to commission Antiretroviral Drugs for use as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV. PrEP has been described as a...
The European Court of Human Rights has granted our client Anti-Slavery International permission to intervene in the significant case of Chowdhury v Greece, Application No: 21884/15. The plight of Mr Chowdhury and his fellow workers, who were migrants working as fruit pickers in Greece, was publicised...
Open Rights Group and Privacy International made submissions today to the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU in the case of Davis and Watson. The case concerns the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014, which has been challenged by the MPs...
Redbridge council placed a homeless family of 4 in one room in a hostel for 8 months. A case such as this is yet to be tested by the courts because a few days before the hearing Redbridge offered the family a 2 bedroom flat,...
10am, Monday 14 March 2016 Milton Keynes Coroner’s Court, Civic Offices, 1 Saxon Gate East, Central Milton Keynes MK9 3EJ Before Senior Coroner Tom Osbourne 44 year old Ian Brown, from Northampton, was found hanging in his cell in HMP Woodhill on 19 July 2015. The inquest into...
Coroner makes critical recommendations for SERCO, Metropolitan Police Service and the Forensic Medical Examiner in her report to prevent future deaths, following the inquest into the death of Sivaraj Tharmalingam at Thames Magistrates Court. The Inquest into the death of Mr Tharmalingham, that concluded on Friday...