On 8 September 2023, Carralyn Parkes, a local resident, issued a judicial review claim challenging the Home Secretary’s use of the Bibby Stockholm barge to accommodate asylum-seekers at Portland Port in Dorset, without obtaining planning permission. Although Ms Parkes is a Portland Town Councillor and...
Press Release: by DPG Solicitors for Core Participants D687 and Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group The Brook House Inquiry report, published today, is a searing indictment over 711 pages of Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in 2017, but its conclusions go far further. It is the first...
On 7 August 2023, our client Carralyn Parkes, a local resident, put the Government on notice of her intention to challenge the Home Secretary’s failure to obtain necessary planning permission to use the Bibby Stockholm barge to accommodate asylum seekers in Portland Harbour in Dorset....
The Home Office is legally required to make additional weekly payments to pregnant women and for children under 3 years old of £3/£5 to meet their additional nutritional needs. This mirrors the Healthy Start scheme which people waiting for their asylum claim to be decided...
14 July 2023 Press Release The High Court has today granted our client permission to proceed with his judicial review claim against government plans to set up an asylum accommodation centre at Weathersfield Airfield. The Secretary of State for the Home Department is using wartime emergency powers...
Deighton Pierce Glynn was last night presented with the award for Legal Aid Firm of the Year at the 2023 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards ceremony. We are honoured to have been recognised among an outstanding field of Legal Aid lawyers and support staff...
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...