News

Our client (“BB”) has today been granted permission by the High Court for his judicial review of the Home Secretary’s refusal to announce a public inquiry in to abuse of detainees at G4S-run Brook House Immigration Removal Centre.

We are seeking permission to continue our judicial review in the High Court to challenge the Home Secretary’s refusal to announce an independent public inquiry in to the widespread abuse revealed at G4S-run Brook House Immigration Removal Centre.

High Court to rule on Home Office’s poor response to mistreatment of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre complies with Article 3 ECHR.

Local Braintree resident, Gabriel Clarke-Holland, yesterday (27 April 2023) applied to the High Court for a judicial review of the decision by the Home Secretary to use Wethersfield airfield as a large scale asylum accommodation centre. He will also challenge a related environmental screening decision...

Inquiry Chair, Ms Kate Eves officially launches the start of the Inquiry with her Opening Statement and Call for Evidence. The official launch comes following the Government converting the Prison and Probation Ombudsman investigation of Brook House into a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act...

As a result of our client’s litigation, the Home Office amended its Immigration Bail policy at the end of February 2020 to confirm that Schedule 10 applications for non-detained nationals should be determined within 5 days or less, and within 2 days for vulnerable groups...

DPG has been instructed to advise in relation to a potential planning challenge to the Home Office’s proposal to house 1,500 asylum seekers in military 'camp' style accommodation in a remote RAF airfield.

A judicial review of the flawed operation of the Child Maintenance Service – the government programme responsible for the collection and payment of child maintenance between separated parents – has been granted permission for judicial review at a hearing in the High Court. The case...

The High Court has again declared that the government’s NRPF policy is unlawful, this time because it breaches disability discrimination laws. Two cases brought by clients of ours and supported by The Unity Project, RAMFEL and Impact: Law for Social Justice, were due to be...

DPG has obtained damages and settled a claim in which a man died from the effect of NPS (spice) in HMP Birmingham, a privately managed prison operated by G4S at the time. G4S’s running of the prison failed to meet the standards of public service...

Pre Inquest Hearing Bedfordshire and Luton Coroners Court March 2 2016 At the hearing Heather Williams QC, instructed by DPG, argued that the Coroner should investigate the events in the last few weeks leading up to Elliott’s death on September 15 2015 – focusing on...

Dentists discriminating against HIV patients – Our client attended a morning appointment to register at his local dentist practice… but when he disclosed his HIV status he was informed by the nurse… not only is it discriminatory but it is also illogical to treat HIV positive patients differently because…