The Court of Appeal has declined to rule on the lawfulness of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (‘DRIPA’) and opted instead to refer the key issues to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). DRIPA permits the government to require telecommunications providers...
Last week, shortly before the High Court was due to hear a ground-breaking case on local authorities powers towards victims of human trafficking, Bristol City Council accepted that local authorities in England and Wales bear responsibility to provide welfare support to victims of trafficking where...
Following an inquest heard at Reading Town Hall before HM Senior Coroner for Berkshire, Peter J. Bedford, the jury found that Matthew Seddon (aged 19) was being pursued by police on 11 February 2013 when his car collided with a barrier on A33. Due to...
The IPCC has published a review of its investigation into the police handling of events leading to the domestic homicide of Rachael Slack and her two year old son Auden. It found a number of inadequacies in relation to the original IPCC investigation, which concluded...
Deighton Pierce Glynn has been instructed by Rights Watch UK to challenge the Prime Minister’s amendments to the Ministerial Code, which remove the reference to Ministers’ duty to uphold international law, Treaty obligations and the administration of justice. The Ministerial Code is a document issued by...
HHJ Hand has ruled that the Home Office unlawfully detained and discriminated against a severely-disabled DPG client on two separate occasions. Our client, St Clair Toussaint, was first detained in an immigration detention centre for a week in February 2012. During this time, the Home Office...
10am, Tuesday 20 October 2015 St Pancras Coroner's Court, Camley Street, London N1C 4PP Before Senior Coroner Mary Hassel 33-year-old Carl died on 9th December 2014 in the Royal London Hospital having been found hanging in his cell in HMP Pentonville on 5th of December. The inquest into...
We have been instructed by a number of patients to challenge guidance which requires hospitals to tell the Home Office if patients have received medical treatment but cannot pay for it, irrespective of whether the patient has consented to the sharing of the information. There...