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Hasan Khalifah becomes DPG partner

We are delighted to announce that Hasan Khalifah has been appointed as Partner in our firm from 1st April 2020. Hasan is our first non solicitor partner and this is an exciting development for us. He joined DPG in 2011 as a junior in our...

COVID-19 Update

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Government needs to do more to clamp down on transnational child abuse by UK nationals

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (‘IICSA’) has issued its report about the use of civil orders, disclosure and barring and extra territorial prosecutions of child sex offenders. The IICSA report has issued recommendations to the Government which include to ‘coordinate the development of...

Government accepts that babies should not have been charged for life-saving treatment

Last year two babies were born prematurely, and had to spend the first few months of their lives in intensive care.  They were left with significant ongoing health problems for which they require regular treatment. Almost a year later their parents, who have leave to...

High Court rules that Home Office policy on EU rough sleepers is unlawful

Partner Zubier Yazdani represented the AIRE centre as intervenor in the judicial review brought by the Public Interest Law Unit for 3 rough sleeping EU nationals. The Home Office had decided that rough sleeping was an ‘abuse’ of EU free movement rights and was therefore...

Jury highlights failures at the inquest into death of Chris Carpenter at HMP Woodhill

The inquest into the death of 34-year-old Chris Carpenter concluded yesterday with the jury finding failures by prison and healthcare staff in the run up to Chris’s death on 18th August 2018. Christopher was the last of four men to die in the prison in...

High Court hears challenge to systemic delays in child asylum claims

On 10-12 December 2019 the High Court is hearing a judicial review challenging substantial and systematic delays by the Home office in deciding asylum applications made by unaccompanied children. Statistics show that applications by unaccompanied children have routinely taken well in excess of a year...

Deighton Pierce Glynn Shortlisted for Legal 500 Firm of the Year Award

Deighton Pierce Glynn has been shortlisted by the Legal 500 for the specialism firm of the year award. The recognition for our client’s administrative and public law cases highlights the importance of this area of law in holding the executive to account at a time...

Police Breached Human Rights in Fatal Pursuit Collision

Thames Valley Police have been found to have breached human rights following a fatal pursuit collision five years ago. Today at the County Court sitting at Central London, HHJ Baucher handed down her judgement in the case of Julie Seddon and others v The Chief...

High Court reaffirms that local authorities are liable for overcharging tenants for water

In a judgment handed down today the High Court has ruled that Kingston Council is liable to local authority tenants for water overcharges dating back to 1 April 2002. The impact of today’s result could be felt in millions of pounds of refunds to council...

Bandung Conference 2019: Can Kenya end the Colonial Land Grab of the Multi-nationals?

Connie N. Maina Sozi, Partner at Deighton Pierce Glynn, will be a panel member at this conference in Strathmore University’s Law School, Nairobi, on 28 and 29 November 2019. The original Bandung Conference was held in Indonesia in 1955. The first of its kind, it...