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High Court affirms serious unlawfulness of Home Office blanket seizures of migrants’ mobile phones
High Court quashes Home Office refusal to issue visa to former British Forces Interpreter in Afghanistan
The inquest into the death of 43-year-old Brett Lowe concluded on Monday 22 August 2022, with the jury finding that Brett’s death was preventable and there was gross failure to take basic steps to safeguard Brett
The High Court has granted permission to proceed with a challenge to an undisclosed Home Office policy which states that asylum seekers can only be dispersed from temporary hotel accommodation on an “expedited” basis if there are “exceptional circumstances.”
Today, the Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in the case of Hubert Howard (deceased) (substituted by Maresha Howard Rose) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department. This was an appeal by the Secretary of State of the High Court decision...
The Supreme Court opens the door for exploited domestic workers in diplomatic household to obtain compensation in a landmark decision today
In a judgment handed-down on 24 June 2022, the High Court has ruled that the Home Secretary’s decision in August 2021 to grant herself planning permission to use Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent for 5 years was unlawful. Up until August 2021, Napier Barracks had...
On 20 June 2022, the High Court upheld an application for judicial review brought by a mother and her two British children against the Home Office’s NRPF policy on the basis that it still fails to comply with the legal obligation to safeguard and promote...
Inquest into the death of Marcus McGuire opens today at Birmingham and Solihull Coroners Court.
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...