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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.

The Home Office has reinstated key protections for survivors of torture and other highly vulnerable people seeking asylum following a successful legal challenge brought by DPG on behalf of Freedom from Torture and the Helen Bamber Foundation (“FfT” and “HBF”).

Today is the second day of a 2.5-day High Court trial in Sadat and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department, a challenge to the Government's "Visa Brake" policy brought on behalf of our four clients. Introduced through changes to the Immigration Rules in March 2026, the Visa Brake prevents nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan from obtaining student visas to study in the UK.

1. In a landmark ruling regarding the Government’s flagship policy of removing asylum seekers to France, the High Court has today found that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully when it removed the right of potential victims of human trafficking to request reconsideration of negative trafficking decisions before removal to France and other signatories to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (“ECAT”).

We are proud to congratulate our solicitor Amalia King on receiving the Public Law Award at the 2026 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) Awards.

Ronnie was 47 years old when he died at HMP Woodhill on 30 April 2024 as a result of Spice use. He was known by his family as a practical joker who loved to make people around him laugh.

The High Court has delivered a judgment that could have a major impact on how the UK government treats some of the most vulnerable asylum seekers.

In a significant development for survivors of trafficking, the Home Office has conceded[ES1.1] a claim for judicial review relating to serious failures to identify and protect a survivor of trafficking and to instead prosecute him after he was forced at gunpoint to pilot a dinghy across the English Channel.

When Alison McDermott, Dr Hinaa Toheed and Susanna Hickman Gray issued a claim for judicial review against the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (“JCIO”), it was the first time that the judicial regulator had faced scrutiny over its interpretation of “judicial misconduct”.

The judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action takes place in the Court of Appeal on 28-30 April 2026. The hearing can be viewed here:

The Home Office accommodated our clients, SH and BWO, and their families each in a single hotel room for 3 years. On 26 March 2026, the High Court found that any period in these living conditions longer than 3 months was “too long to be consistent with providing them with a dignified standard of living, adequate for health and meeting their essential needs”. The Home Office was therefore in breach of its duty to provide destitute asylum seekers with “adequate” accommodation.

Clare’s death at HMP Eastwood Park in 2022 highlights continuing fire safety failings across prison estate.