Our client, an asylum seeker and torture survivor, was a victim of assault and ongoing abuse and harassment from another asylum seeker whilst living in shared accommodation provided by the Home Office under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. She reported the...
DPG’s work has been featured in the Bristol Cable: a pioneering community-led newspaper that has won awards for its investigative journalism. Ugo Hayter and Adam Hundt spoke to the Cable about DPG’s work and the inspiration that comes from working with our brave clients. Read the...
Two judicial reviews brought by five DPG clients challenging Home Office delays in providing accommodation to those entitled to section 4 support and the delays in providing suitable accommodation to disabled people is being heard from Monday 20 July to Thursday 23 July 2020 in...
In a rare successful challenge to a Crown Prosecution Service's ('CPS') decision, the High Court has decided that the CPS's decision not to prosecute a former diplomat and his wife who exploited our client by forcing her to work excessive hours for very little pay...
https://youtu.be/E_xbHwmLnJ8 DPG represented the family of Mikey Powell who was killed by West Midlands Police officers on 7 September 2003. Mikey’s Nieces have put together this video to express their feelings. Chaela had not been born when Mikey died and Kiara was just a...
At a High Court hearing on 1 July 2020 our client will challenge the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to prosecute a former diplomat who exploited her by forcing her to work excessive hours for very little pay. Our client was a domestic worker who had...
"My children go without every single day because their father absolutely refuses to put his hand in his pocket and the Child Maintenance Service, despite having a huge raft of powers at its disposal, does nothing meaningful to force him to cough up” DPG are instructed...
On 31 March 2020 the Home Office announced a free one-year visa extension for some staff in the NHS and care sectors, and their family members. This means they will not have to pay the application fee or the immigration health surcharge. The extension is...