The UK government’s bulk surveillance practices come under scrutiny on Wednesday 10 July 2019 before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. The landmark hearing – almost six years to the day since Edward Snowden first disclosed details of UK and US...
We have written to the Children’s Commissioner and asked her to investigate the Home Office’s ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy – a key plank of Theresa May’s hostile environment – following the recent report showing its shocking impact on children. In 2012 the then Home...
The inquest opens today into the double shooting of Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy on 23 February 2014. Christine and Lucy were shot by John Lowe using shotguns that were removed and then returned by Surrey police seven months before the murders. The inquest...
On Friday 10 May 2019 the Court of Appeal will hear the application to appeal against the High Court’s decision to refuse a challenge to the legality of the Government’s powers to make Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) that would allow pharmacists to alter prescriptions for...
MA v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CO/2710/2017); BB v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CO/382/2018). The High Court is to rule on whether the Home Office’s poor response to the appalling mistreatment of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, exposed...
Our client, a Windrush migrant was scheduled to be removed on the Charter flight to Jamaica today, 6 February 2019. Our client’s removal has been stayed but 35 (originally 51) others have been removed. For all we know some of those removed may have been...
DPG partner Sue Willman will be talking at the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR)’s event Arbitrary Detention, Torture and Sexual Harassment of Female Activists in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday 22 January 2019 at 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ from 6pm. Sue will be...
An inquest jury at Barnet Coroners Court on 22nd October 2018 concluded that multiple failures in the care and risk assessment of a detained psychiatric patient, known at the request of his family as Mr A, contributed to his death. Mr A absconded during escorted leave...
Heddwyn Hughes, 67, was a vulnerable adult who was in the care of Hywel Dda Health Trust at Carmarthen. The inquest into his death today concluded he was failed following a catastrophic injury whilst detained in a care home for people with learning disabilities. Heddwyn had...
The Home Office have backed down and agreed to the appointment of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) to undertake a bespoke and independent Article 3 ECHR-compliant investigation into abuse of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) exposed by a BBC Panorama documentary...