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Duwayne Brooks OBE and Jane Deighton attended the opening hearing of the Under Cover Policing Inquiry at the High Court today

The Chairman Christopher Pitchford outline the terms and the process. Mr Brooks OBE has raised several initial concerns with the Secretary to the Inquiry. They are: The omission of covert recordings from the terms of reference – they appear to exclude the covert recording of Mr...

28 July, 2015

Successful Intervention in Judicial Review of Data Retention Legislation

The High Court today declared that key parts of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 breach EU law and must be disapplied. The Act was rushed through parliament in one week in July 2014, allowing little time for thorough debate or civil society...

17 July, 2015

Legality of UK Training of Sudan’s Army Challenge heard in High Court

Ali Agab Nour, a Sudanese lawyer and refugee, will challenge the British Government’s decision to provide military training to the Sudanese Army today in the High Court. It is well-documented that the Sudanese Army regularly and systematically perpetrate truly appalling human rights violations including mass rape,...

15 July, 2015

Details of UK Policy Making on Drones to be Released

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones has successfully settled its Freedom of Information Challenge to the Cross-Government Working Group on Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems’s refusal to release details of its deliberations regarding drones policy in the UK. Unusually for a FOIA case, the parties were...

03 July, 2015

DPG instructed by Crowd funded Womens Pension Campaign

A campaign started on social media highlighted the prejudice caused by State Pension Age changes for women born in the 1950s. The 1995 Conservative Government’s State Pension Act included plans to increase women’s state pension age from 60 to 65 so that it was the same...

02 July, 2015

Court action launched challenging UK-Saudi Prisons deal

A High Court challenge was launched today against the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) for selling its services to the Saudi Government. The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) is challenging the legality of the MOJ’s decision to bid for a contract to provide support through...

29 June, 2015

Legal challenge to Government’s Data Retention Law in Court

The judicial review challenge to the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (‘DRIPA’) brought by the MPs David Davis and Tom Watson is being heard today in the High Court. Deighton Pierce Glynn are representing the interveners: Open Rights Group and Privacy International; who...

04 June, 2015