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 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...
DPG client David Buxton, Deaf campaigner and CEO of Action on Disability has been interviewed by BBC See Hear in connection with the Access to Work cap. Access to Work is a scheme aimed at helping deaf and disabled people in work. Awards are now...
Following a hearing in December 2017, the Court of Appeal has declared the data retention provision of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (“DRIPA”) to be unlawful, following the landmark judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU...
The Times has recognised Daniel Carey, Associate Solicitor at Deighton Pierce Glynn, as their “Lawyer of the Week” for his work representing Rights Watch (UK) in the Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber. The case concerned a Freedom of Information Act appeal against a refusal by...
A disability rights campaigner has issued judicial review proceedings in the High Court challenging the government’s decision to cap support for disabled people in work under the Access to Work Scheme. David Buxton, a Deaf BSL user and CEO of the charity Action on Disability,...
Partner Zubier Yazdani represented the AIRE centre as intervenor in the judicial review brought by the Public Interest Law Unit for 3 rough sleeping EU nationals. The Home Office had decided that rough sleeping was an ‘abuse’ of EU free movement rights and was therefore...