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The Supreme Court hearing of the appeal concerning the lawfulness of the decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation begins on Wednesday, 4 November 2026. Amnesty International UK (represented by Deighton Pierce Glynn) and Liberty have been granted permission to intervene jointly in the appeal.

Roberto Villa, 37, died on 4 December 2018 following approximately 4 minutes of police restraint, which included a headlock lasting over a minute. Roberto did not recover from the restraint.

A Coroner’s jury sitting in Exeter has returned a stinging set of conclusions in the case concerned with the three elderly men killed in 2019 by Alex Lewis-Ranwell during a psychotic episode.

On 13 October 2026, the Supreme Court heard R v Field. More information about our clients’ intervention is here. Outside the Court, our clients and bereaved families held a banner calling for justice for victims of domestic abuse-related suicide and highlighting the need for them to be recognised under the law of homicide.

The High Court has heard a systemic challenge to the Home Office’s practice of closing asylum hotels and relocating vulnerable asylum seekers, in proceedings brought by our clients, a mother and her two children.

On 13 October 2026, the Supreme Court will hear the case of R v Field, which has significant implications for the prosecution of domestic abuse-related suicide cases.

An inquest into the deaths of Anthony Payne, and twins Dick Carter and Roger Carter, three men who were killed on 10 February 2019, will start today at Exeter Coroner’s Court.

When TfL failed to determine renewal applications before existing licences expired, thousands of drivers found themselves unable to work through no fault of their own, with some exhausting savings, falling into debt and struggling to meet essential financial commitments.

In an important judgment handed down in the case of in R (CBC & Anor) v Secretary of State for Defence & Anor [2026] EWHC 2147 (Admin), the High Court has ruled that 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 were unlawful and should be quashed*.

Our 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.

Deighton 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.

In the first case of its kind, the High Court has ordered the Home Secretary to take all reasonable steps to bring DPG’s client, GIP, back from France to the UK.