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Supreme Court rules on civil partnerships: discrimination must end immediately

Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, have won their Supreme Court case establishing that lack of civil partnerships for opposite-sex couples is unlawful.

Supreme Court rules on civil partnerships: discrimination must end immediately

Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, have won their Supreme Court case establishing that lack of civil partnerships for opposite-sex couples is unlawful.

PrEP legal battle to feature on BBC on Wednesday night

BBC to show a documentary on the battle by campaigners and organisations for the NHS to fund PrEP with National AIDS trust and our lawyers being featured.

Jury finds ‘systemic failures’ at Heathrow IRC contributed to death of immigration detainee Marcin Gwozdzinski

The inquest into the death of Marcin Gwozdzinski today concluded finding serious failings which contributed to his death at Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre (IRC).

Supreme Court finds that Northern Ireland abortion law is incompatible with the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court found that Northern Ireland’s current laws prohibiting abortion are incompatible with Human Rights Act in so far as they fail to provide an exception for terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, rape and incest.

Angela Best inquest: coroner’s conclusion criticises inadequate system for managing risk to women posed by two times killer

HM Coroner Mary Hassell has found that ‘no person or organisation had any role, responsibility or power to investigate’ whether two-times killer Theodore Johnson was in a relationship with a woman. Johnson, who had killed two previous partners, was considered to pose a high risk...

#BlackLivesMatter

We at Deighton Pierce Glynn support the struggle of the black community against racism and violence by state and security forces, in the US and here in the UK.

High Court finds decision to house asylum seekers at military barracks unlawful

In a judgment handed down today, the High Court has found that Napier Barracks provided inadequate accommodation for asylum seekers, that the Defendant’s process for selecting people to be accommodated at the Barracks was flawed and unlawful, and that residents of Napier Barracks were unlawfully...

Challenge to CPS’s decision not to prosecute following death in HMP Woodhill

On 5 March 2016 Robert Fenlon took his own life whilst detained at Woodhill prison. On 5 April 2019 the Crown Prosecution service decided not to bring charges against a number of suspects, including the Ministry of Justice & National Offender Management Service. This decision...

The inquest into the death of 29-year-old Mark Culverhouse concluded on 21 May 2021

Jury decides that the unlawful detention of Mark Culverhouse in Segregation contributed to his death at HMP Woodhill.

UK Mass Surveillance of Communications violated ECHR: Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights

The UK government’s programmes of mass surveillance of electronic communications have been found to have been unlawful in a landmark ruling today by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.  Over eight years since Edward Snowden first disclosed details of UK and...