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 –...
The High Court has again declared that the government’s NRPF policy is unlawful, this time because it breaches disability discrimination laws. Two cases brought by clients of ours and supported by The Unity Project, RAMFEL and Impact: Law for Social Justice, were due to be heard...
DPG has obtained damages and settled a claim in which a man died from the effect of NPS (spice) in HMP Birmingham, a privately managed prison operated by G4S at the time. G4S’s running of the prison failed to meet the standards of public service required...
The Home Office confirmed that recognised survivors of trafficking are entitled to reinstatement of the accommodation and welfare support they previously received as trafficking victims under the National Referral Mechanism (‘NRM’), in circumstances where their needs require it. Our client received a positive Conclusive Grounds decision...
Deighton Pierce Glynn have responded to the inspection being carried out by the Independent Chief Inspector for Borders and Immigration (“ICIBI”) into the UK Government’s Afghan Resettlement Schemes, based on the experience of our clients in a series of judicial reviews regarding incorrect refusals of...
The High Court has ruled today that Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council’s policy of having no limit on the number of strip clubs is unlawful. The Court decided that the Council was wrong to ignore concerns that strip clubs contribute to the abuse, harassment...