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 – is taking place over two days (3rd and 4th October 2023) at the High Court (at the Royal...
This week our clients’ Louisa and Yufial featured in a BBC report on police officers’ misuse of body-worn video. The two-year BBC investigation uncovered more than 150 reports of camera misuse by forces in England and Wales including police officers switching off their body-worn cameras...
Following an undercover reporter at Brook House Detention Centre exposing racism, physical assaults and abuse of detainees, our formerly detained client D687 and multiple NGOs in the sector, called for a public inquiry to investigate the circumstances surrounding the mistreatment of detained people at Brook...
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...