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The jury at Gloucestershire Coroner’s Court concluded that “inappropriate” restraint by security staff at Stowfield Business Park near Lydbrook contributed to the death of Mark Kentish on 23 June 2016.

Mark Hylands has completed his training contract and accepted a permanent position as a solicitor at DPG.

Today, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (“GCHR”) and Deighton Pierce Glynn (“DPG”) published a report titled Accountability for Torture in Bahrain: A Call for Magnitsky Sanctions. The report’s focus is on the application and use of the UK ‘Magnitsky’ style sanctions regime against Bahraini...

A judicial review hearing regarding the Home Secretary’s decision to house asylum seekers at Napier military Barracks in Kent took place at the Royal Courts of Justice on 14 and 15 April 2021. The claims were brought by six Claimants who were anonymised during the...

On 14 and 15 April 2021, a High Court judge, the honourable Mr Justice Linden, will consider whether the Home Secretary acted unlawfully in housing asylum-seekers at Napier Barracks in Kent. Because of social distancing, the judge and lawyers will be in Court and the...

Sue Willman was given an award  for Outstanding Achievement at the Modern Law Awards, presented by Law Society President Stephanie Boyce.

In a landmark judgment today the High Court found the Home Office’s blanket policy of seizing mobile phones from all migrants entering the UK by small boat to be unlawful. The policy, operated during 2020, resulted in the seizure of nearly 2000 phones from affected...

The Divisional Court has ruled today that the CPS’s decision not to prosecute our client’s former employer who exploited her by forcing her to work excessive hours for very little pay, was unlawful. Our client was a domestic worker who had come the UK with...

The inquest into the self-inflicted death of Dean George in HMP Swansea has concluded, with the jury identifying multiple critical failures that contributed to his death on 10 April 2016. The family were represented by DPG’s Clare Richardson and Rosa Potter and Kirsten Heaven from Garden Court Chambers.

The UK government are consulting on replacing the Human Rights Act 1998 with a new “Bill of Rights”.  We have responded to the consultation stressing the constitutional importance of universal rights protections and the dangers posed by the proposals, which would allow the government to...

Judgment handed down in judicial review claim brought by DPG client Catherine Lewis confirms that Aarhus Convention cost protection applies. The Administrative Court in Wales today decided  in favour of environmental activist Catherine Lewis, overturning a costs order against her of £30,328.50. Mr Justice Eyre...

The Good Law Project has today issued judicial review proceedings challenging the legality of the Government’s powers to make Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) that would allow pharmacists to alter prescriptions for people with serious medical conditions, such as epilepsy, in the event of medicines shortages....