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...
In recognition of her work in discrimination cases, Louise has been nominated and shortlisted for this award run by the Equal Rights Trust. The Equal Rights Trust was established in 2007, with a mission to combat discrimination and promote equality as a fundamental human right and a principle of...
Following our clients’ Supreme Court win in June this year, the Government has announced they will change the law and extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples. Earlier this year, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan won their Supreme Court case to establish that the lack of civil...
Our clients, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, have won their Supreme Court case to establish that the lack of civil partnerships for opposite-sex couples is unlawful and a breach of their human rights. In a judgment handed down today (27 June 2018), the Supreme Court unanimously...