CONTENT WARNING: This article contains themes of self-harm and self-inflicted death. A Coroner’s jury concluded on 10 December 2025 that a prisoner's indefinite sentence “was likely the most significant factor contributing to the feelings of despair and mental exhaustion” that led to his suicide in...
The High Court heard the judicial review of the UK government’s decision to ‘proscribe’ the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation (R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Department) over three days on 27, 28 November & 2 December 2025. The...
This month’s blog focuses on the move-on support provided to individuals with newly granted international protection status, which frequently leaves people who the Government has accepted require sanctuary, facing street homelessness and imminent destitution. What is Asylum Support? The Home Secretary has an obligation to provide...
Before HM Area Coroner Laurinda Bower Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire Coroner’s Court 11 to 28 November 2025 CONTENT WARNING: This article contains themes of self-harm and self-inflicted death. A jury has found that there was a sustained failure by Sodexo to address the operational safety concerns at HMP...
Our client Kay Barter has given a moving interview to Channel 4’s Jackie Long. With extraordinary courage and dignity, Kay shares her daughter’s story and her belief that Georgia’s life “was taken from her”. Channel 4 has also published an article examining the wider fight to...
DPG continues to push for justice for asylum seekers subjected to unlawful detention and inhumane conditions at Manston Short-Term Holding Facility in Autumn 2022, when overcrowding, neglect, and mistreatment became rampant as a result of a Home Office decision not to move people to asylum...
In this month’s blog we reflect on the landmark Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) on states’ obligations regarding climate change, including the link between environmental protection and human rights, the importance of which is increasingly being recognised by both the international...
The Administrative court has granted permission for judicial review in our clients' eVisa policy challenge. The SSHD is accused of having an unlawful policy of only issuing proof of lawful status through eVisas, and failing to issue alternative proof of status outside of this system. Background...