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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...

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

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...

The High Court has ruled today that the Home Office unjustifiably discriminated DPG client, EH, by refusing to pay her dependents’ trafficking support payments just because she was an asylum seeker. The current system of support for trafficked people provides for payments for dependant children....

St Pancras Coroners Court has begun to hear evidence from professionals and officials involved in the management of a man who was twice released to kill again.

Deighton Pierce Glynn have responded to the government’s consultation on reforms to judicial review.  The government’s proposed reforms would open the door to legislation removing the power of the courts to review the lawfulness of government action. This power – of judicial review – has...

Mark, 29, was found unresponsive under a sheet on the floor of his cell in the segregation unit of HMP Woodhill at about 14.49 on 23 April 2019. A ligature made from torn sheeting was tied between his neck and ankle. He was resuscitated and...

Our client, who wishes to remain anonymous, has been granted permission and costs protection, in her judicial review challenge of her local Council’s policy on how strip clubs should be licensed. After a successful judicial review of Sheffield City Council by our client last year,...

In a judgment handed down today, the High Court has found that the Home Office’s treatment of Windrush Citizenship Applications has been irrational, by continuing to impose a restrictive “good character” requirement that denied members of the Windrush generation citizenship status. The “good character” requirement...

We don’t want to buy into a concept created by an enthusiastic proponent of the racist hostile environment, but Stephen Lawrence day will no doubt quite rightly be of real importance to the Lawrence family, Duwayne Brooks, and those close to them. We all have...

DPG clients Operation Black Vote, the Runnymede Trust and Voice4Change UK have been given permission to intervene in the Supreme Court case of Coughlan v Minister for the Cabinet Office, challenging the imposition of voter ID requirements in UK local elections.

The Guardian has reported today that reforms will be introduced to the British Nationality Act 1981, which will give the Home Secretary and her agents discretion to waive residence requirements that have led to Windrush migrants like our client, Trevor Donald, being refused citizenship. This...