In a judgment handed down today, the High Court has found that the Home Office's treatment of Windrush Citizenship Applications has been irrational, by continuing to impose a restrictive "good character" requirement that denied members of the Windrush generation citizenship status. The "good character" requirement...
Our client has commenced a legal challenge against the Home Office, its staff and agents, in respect of the way that she was dealt with by staff at her asylum support accommodation provided to our client under the Home Office’s Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract...
We don’t want to buy into a concept created by an enthusiastic proponent of the racist hostile environment, but Stephen Lawrence day will no doubt quite rightly be of real importance to the Lawrence family, Duwayne Brooks, and those close to them. We all have a...
A judicial review hearing regarding the Home Secretary’s decision to house asylum seekers at Napier military Barracks in Kent took place at the Royal Courts of Justice on 14 and 15 April 2021. The claims were brought by six Claimants who were anonymised during the...
On 14 and 15 April 2021, a High Court judge, the honourable Mr Justice Linden, will consider whether the Home Secretary acted unlawfully in housing asylum-seekers at Napier Barracks in Kent. Because of social distancing, the judge and lawyers will be in Court and the...
Two survivors of trafficking who successfully challenged a Home Office policy which was found to discriminate against trafficking victims who also had applications for asylum, have been awarded damages for the breach of their Human Rights. Our clients, the Claimants in the leading case JP and...
Our client was on the 5 year route to settlement, but lost her job as a result of the pandemic. She had to apply for recourse to public funds, but the Home Office insisted that the consequence of this was that she would be moved...
DPG clients Operation Black Vote, the Runnymede Trust and Voice4Change UK have been given permission to intervene in the Supreme Court case of Coughlan v Minister for the Cabinet Office, challenging the imposition of voter ID requirements in UK local elections (in May 2019). The...