A jury today found further failures in the management of a vulnerable prisoner in HMP Woodhill. The Milton Keynes jury had been hearing evidence in the inquest into the death of Michael Cameron, who was 45 at the time of his death. On 26 April...
Operation Nexus is a joint initiative between the Home Office and Police to verify the immigration status of, and gather information from, foreign nationals, including EEA nationals. Mrs Justice McGowan finished hearing the judicial review of Operation Nexus on 4 May 2017. The court heard that,...
45 year old Michael Cameron, from South London was remanded to HMP Woodhill on 19 April 2016. He was found hanging in his cell on 26 April & died 2 days later in Milton Keynes University Hospital. Michael was the 3rd of 7 men to take...
Jury finds that failure by HMP Woodhill to learn from previous suicides caused the death by neglect of Daniel Dunkley. Daniel Dunkley hanged himself at HMP Woodhill on 29 July 2016 and died on 2 August 2016. The jury at his inquest concluded on Friday that...
DPG partner, Gareth Mitchell, has been shortlisted for the Solicitors Journal Legal Personality of the Year 2017 award. The shortlist for Legal Personality was not open to nominations but decided on by the Solicitors Journal editorial team, who considered lawyers that had performed exceptional case...
An IPCC report confirms that a Surrey police firearms licencing officer has been sacked for failings in relation to the return of shotguns to John Lowe, one of which was subsequently used to kill Christine and Lucy Lee in February 2014. Another member of staff...
The High Court is to hear a Judicial Review challenge of HMP Woodhill and Secretary of State for Justice (SSJ) on 7 April 2017. The hearing follows the High Court granting permission to the Claimants to challenge and force the Defendants (Governor of HMP Woodhill and...
The Supreme Court has heard an appeal over a case allowing survivors of crimes such as sexual assault, to sue the police if they do not carry out an effective investigation. Read more about the case here....