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A judicial review of the Child Maintenance Service – the government programme responsible for the collection and payment of child maintenance

This week our clients’ Louisa and Yufial featured in a BBC report on police officers’ misuse of body-worn video. The two-year BBC investigation uncovered more than 150 reports of camera misuse by forces in England and Wales including police officers switching off their body-worn cameras...

On 8 September 2023, Carralyn Parkes, a local resident, issued a judicial review claim challenging the Home Secretary’s use of the Bibby Stockholm barge to accommodate asylum-seekers at Portland Port in Dorset, without obtaining planning permission. Although Ms Parkes is a Portland Town Councillor and...

Following an undercover reporter at Brook House Detention Centre exposing racism, physical assaults and abuse of detainees, our formerly detained client D687 and multiple NGOs in the sector, called for a public inquiry to investigate the circumstances surrounding the mistreatment of detained people at Brook...

The Brook House Inquiry – the first of its kind – will hold its first virtual preliminary hearing at 2pm today, Friday 25 September 2020. The Brook House Inquiry is the first public inquiry into immigration detention in the United Kingdom. It’s first preliminary hearing...

The Brook House Inquiry report, published today, is a searing indictment over 711 pages of Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in 2017

The Chief Constable of West Midlands police has issued a rare public apology for failures in relation to domestic abuse, following an eight year struggle for justice by Suzanne’s family. Suzanne was found dead at home by her nine-year-old daughter on 8 February 2013. Prior...

The High Court rules Home Office policy to be so inherently unfair, that it’s unlawful. In a judgment handed down on 21 July 2020, the High Court found the Home Office’s policy on accommodating destitute migrants was systemically unfair and unlawful. The Home Office has...

The Court of Appeal has emphatically rejected the Government’s application for permission to appeal against a judgment of Mrs Justice May of 14 June 2019 on the investigation into human rights abuses at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. The judge had ordered that the investigation...

Our client intends to challenge the government's failure to obtain planning permission to use the Bibby Stockholm to accommodate asylum seekers in Portland Harbour.

14 July 2023 Press Release The High Court has today granted our client permission to proceed with his judicial review claim against government plans to set up an asylum accommodation centre at Weathersfield Airfield. The Secretary of State for the Home Department is using wartime...

Deighton Pierce Glynn was last night presented with the award for Legal Aid Firm of the Year at the 2023 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards ceremony.