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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.

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...

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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...

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...

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...