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DPG continues to push for justice for asylum seekers subjected to unlawful detention and inhumane conditions at Manston Short-Term Holding Facility in Autumn 2022, when overcrowding, neglect, and mistreatment became rampant as a result of a Home Office decision not to move people to asylum...

The Administrative court has granted permission for judicial review in our eVisa policy challenge on significant wider public interest ground. The SSHD is accused of having an unlawful policy of only issuing proof of lawful status through eVisas, and failing to issue alternative proof of status outside of this system.

This week the latest hearings in the long-running Undercover Policing Inquiry begin. Tranche 3 will investigate the role of the Special Demonstration Squad from 1993 until its closure in 2008. DPG represents a number of core participants in the Inquiry including Ken Livingstone, Duwayne Brooks...

Inquest concludes that Georgia Barter was unlawfully killed in self-inflicted death as a result of domestic abuse.

25 September 2025 29 September 2025 Benjamin Brown: Jury finds failings by East London NHS Foundation Trust and the Metropolitan Police possibly contributed to the death of 35-year-old musician. Before HM Assistant Coroner Jonathan Stevens Inner North London Coroner’s Court 15 September – 25 September...

Amnesty International UK and Liberty have been given permission to jointly intervene in the judicial review challenging the UK government’s decision to ‘proscribe’ the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. On 30 July 2025 a High Court judge found that the proscription was...

DPG client Palestine Solidarity Campaign (“PSC”) has issued a request backed by detailed legal submissions in a Position Paper to every council in England & Wales administering a Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) fund, outlining that they must take steps to divest from companies enabling...

DPG has issued judicial review proceedings on behalf of private hire driver Julius Mugabo, challenging Transport for London’s (TfL) repeated failure to renew drivers’ licences on time. TfL has, for many months, consistently failed to renew private hire drivers’ licences before they expired, effectively preventing...

Before HM Assistant Coroner Bernard Richmond KC Inner West London Coroners Court 23 July – 6 August 2025 CONTENT WARNING: This press release contains themes of self-harm and suicide Rajwinder entered HMP Wandsworth on 9 June 2023, at a time when it was governed by...

Rajwinder died on 25 June 2023, five days after being found unresponsive in his cell, despite arriving at prison with documented concerns for his wellbeing.

At 12:00 on 15 July 2025, the UK Government revealed a major data breach involving the personal details of 18,714 ARAP applicants, originally lost on 22 February 2022. The breach went undetected until August 2023, when some of the data appeared online.

DPG are instructed by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (‘IWGB’), which represents private hire drivers on apps such as Uber and Bolt, to challenge the systemic and ongoing delays in TfL’s licensing system for private hire drivers.