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...
In a judgment handed down by the Supreme Court it was found that Northern Ireland’s current laws prohibiting abortion are incompatible with Human Rights Act in so far as they fail to provide an exception for terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, rape and...
Our client (“BB”) has today been granted permission by the High Court for his judicial review of the Home Secretary’s refusal to announce a public inquiry in to abuse of detainees at G4S-run Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. BB is a former detainee of Brook House...
We are in the High Court on Tuesday seeking permission to continue our judicial review challenging the Home Secretary’s refusal to announce an independent public inquiry in to the widespread abuse revealed at G4S-run Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. In September 2017, the BBC aired its...
Our clients, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, are calling for all couples to have access to civil partnerships in a case being heard in the Supreme Court. Since 2013, same-sex couples have been able to choose between marriage or civil partnership, but the Government has resisted...
DPG’s client Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) has launched a CrowdJustice drive to challenge the decision of the organiser and main sponsors of the Royal Windsor Horse Show to celebrate the King of Bahrain at the event, in in light of the country’s...
DPG client secures High Court injunction allowing her to sit her A-levels next week. A few weeks ago our client was, like many teenagers in the UK, preparing to take her A-levels. She then received a letter from the Home Office informing her that her reporting...
Duwayne Brooks OBE today welcomed the release , finally, of the name used by the undercover police officer, N81, who spied on him, the Lawrence's and justice campaigns. It is David Hagan. Duwayne Brooks OBE said: “At last the speculation is over and I can try...
DPG client Duwayne Brooks OBE joined 60 others yesterday who have been spied upon in protest at the lack of progress in this Inquiry and to campaign for the appoint of a panel of persons with relevant experience to run the Inquiry. The Inquiry has...
Today, 21 March 2018 marks a month since women detained at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre began their hunger strike against inadequate healthcare and other conditions they describe as inhumane, at the centre. On 23 February 2018 Dianne Abbott, Shadow Home Secretary, visited these women...