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What we do
Judicial Review and Public Law
When public bodies act unlawfully or unfairly, judicial review is the legal tool to hold them to account and protect people from decisions that can deeply affect their lives. We have one of the best judicial review teams in the UK.
Actions Against the Police and Other Public Authorities
If you’ve suffered harm or discrimination by a public authority, a civil claim can help you seek justice and compensation.
Inquests & Inquiries
Inquests and public inquiries should uncover the truth and hold systems to account. We can help you through these difficult processes with dignity and determination.
Other Areas of Specialism
Much of our work cuts across different case categories. We have specialist expertise in Migrants Rights; Unlawful Detention; Information & Privacy Rights; Group Claims; and International Issues, amongst others.
Why we're here
Clients first
We put clients first. We collaborate effectively with civil society groups.
Excellence
We are top ranked for our work in the independent Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories.
Challenging authority
We use the law to empower our clients to challenge abuses, failures, and other unlawful conduct by the government and those with power.
Collective values
We are committed to becoming an anti-racist firm. We work together to make the firm sustainable financially and for each other.
Latest news More News
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British Embassy Guards Succeed in ARAP Judicial ReviewIn an important judgment handed down this week in the case of in R (CBC & Anor) v Secretary of State for Defence & Anor [2026] EWHC 2147 (Admin), the High Court has quashed the government’s refusal of protection under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (“ARAP”) for two former longstanding security guards at the British Embassy in Kabul. New decisions regarding ARAP eligibility will now be made in each of our clients’ cases following further representations.
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Court grants permission on all grounds in challenge to the Home Secretary’s asylum hotel closure processOur clients have been granted permission to bring a High Court challenge to the Home Office’s process for rapidly closing asylum hotels and relocating vulnerable people across the country.
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High Court confirms councils cannot avoid care-leaver duties by mislabelling accommodationDeighton Pierce Glynn has acted in an important High Court case confirming that local authorities cannot avoid their duties to children and young people by wrongly describing accommodation provided under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 as section 17 support.
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Blog Previous Blogs
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Blog: The power of police officers to remove a detainee's clothing without consentSection 54 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (“PACE”) deals with the search of persons detained at a police station. Section 54(4)(a) provides that “clothes and personal effects may only be seized if the custody officer … believes that the person from whom they are seized may use them” to, among other things, cause physical injury to himself or another person, damage property, interfere with evidence or assist an escape.
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Blog: Against the criminalisation of survivors of modern slavery - the duties of the police, CPS and the Home Office under Article 4 ECHRThis blog post examines the legal duties owed by the police, the Crown Prosecution Service (“CPS”) and the Home Office towards survivors of modern slavery. It explores how key case law has clarified the scope of those obligations, especially in respect of the criminalisation of potential victims of trafficking, and considers what Article 4 of the European Convention of Human Rights (“ECHR”) requires when responding to survivors of trafficking and exploitation and how both public and private law remedies can be used to enforce this.
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Blog: The Failure to Protect and Support Survivors of TraffickingThis month’s blog focuses on systemic failures to protect and support survivors of trafficking and exploitation, who often arrive in the UK having been subjected to profound harm and control, by providing them with inadequate accommodation.
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