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The inquest opens today into the double shooting of Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy on 23 February 2014.

High Court handed down judgement in the case brought by relatives of Ian Brown and Danny Dunkley who took their own lives in HMP Woodhill

A jury today found further failures in the management of a vulnerable prisoner in HMP Woodhill.

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,...

The Law Society Gazette have published an article titled ‘Home Truths’ exploring the uneven response of the law to domestic violence. It considers some of the advances made in the context of inquests and civil claims against the state, with insight from Deighton Pierce Glynn’s...

09/04/19 – The Court of Appeal will today begin hearing a landmark appeal brought by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) against the Secretary of State for International Trade challenging the government’s ongoing failure to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia for possible use in...

Before HM Assistant Coroner Richard Furniss West London Coroner’s Court 11-25 March 2019 The inquest into the death of Tarek Chowdhury, 64, concluded yesterday, with the jury finding that failings in the immigration detention system contributed to the killing. Mr Chowdhury was unlawfully killed by...

The challenge related to the question of whether Vote Leave broke the statutory spending limits. Following the issue of proceedings, the Electoral Commission agreed to investigate whether Vote Leave and BeLeave were working together. This was a huge victory.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) to hear expert evidence about the extent to which British institutions have failed in their duty to protect children abroad. This week marks the beginning of the Inquiry’s public hearings into this as part of the second...

Our client was due to be removed on a Charter flight today but his removal has been stayed but 35 (originally 51) others have been removed.

The High Court has granted permission for judicial review in a claim challenging the Home Office’s substantial and systematic delays in deciding asylum applications made by unaccompanied children, which are routinely taking well in excess of a year to determine, and in many cases two...

On 22 January 2019 a jury at Milton Keynes Coroners’ court concluded that multiple failures contributed to the death of Ryan Harvey. Ryan was 23 year old when he committed suicide at HMP Woodhill on 8th May 2015. His was the eighth of 18 self-inflicted deaths...