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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 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.

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.

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.