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In a rare successful challenge to a Crown Prosecution Service’s (‘CPS’) decision, the High Court has decided that the CPS’s decision not to prosecute a former diplomat and his wife who exploited our client by forcing her to work excessive hours for very little pay...
https://youtu.be/E_xbHwmLnJ8 DPG represented the family of Mikey Powell who was killed by West Midlands Police officers on 7 September 2003. Mikey’s Nieces have put together this video to express their feelings. Chaela had not been born when Mikey died and Kiara was just a toddler....
High Court to decide if CPS was right to refuse to prosecute former diplomat for exploiting domestic worker
On 31 March 2020 the Home Office announced a free one-year visa extension for some staff in the NHS and care sectors, and their family members. This means they will not have to pay the application fee or the immigration health surcharge. The extension is...
DPG are instructed by four women to challenge the failures of the Child Maintenance Service to effectively collect child maintenance payments from non-resident parents.
The Inquest into the death of Shane Stroughton at HMP Nottingham is to start on 3 June.
In a case taken by DPG solicitors, the High Court has ordered the Home Office to disclose sensitive commercial data concerning whether its private contractors have met their contractual targets for housing destitute failed asylum seekers. The disclosure application was part of a wider systemic...
See here an article by our Jane Deighton and Lord Hendy QC published in the Law Society Gazette. The Government says it is straining sinews to procure more PPE. The media are spilling tears over the plight of inadequately protected health and care workers. We...
High Court to decide whether to suspend ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy
The Unity Project is backing an emergency high court hearing today calling for immediate suspension of the Home Office’s brutal ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF), which is denying tens of thousands of working families access to the welfare safety net during the coronavirus outbreak....
Home Office Agrees to a Rethink of No Recourse to Public Funds Policy
In Pakistan, MS was subjected to years of forced labour and physical abuse. His abusers brought him to the UK at the age of 16, deceiving him into believing that he would receive an education. Once MS arrived in the UK, he continued to be subject to forced labour.