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The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) have today launched a crowd funding campaign to raise £2000 to take the Prime Minister to court for David Cameron’s decision in 2015 to weaken the Ministerial Code. The case relates to the decision made by David Cameron...

Following the Supreme Court’s judgment on cohabitee pension rights, Deighton Pierce Glynn partner Gareth Mitchell is this The Times’ Lawyer of the Week.

DSD and NBV brought claims against the Metropolitan police for failings after they reported being sexually assaulted by the serial rapist, John Worboys. In the Supreme Court, the Home Secretary intervened on the side of the police.

The Court of Appeal has declared the data retention provision of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (“DRIPA”) to be unlawful, following the landmark judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU in December 2016.

The Times has recognised Daniel Carey, Associate Solicitor at Deighton Pierce Glynn, as their “Lawyer of the Week” for his work representing Rights Watch (UK) in the Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber.

On 18 January 2018, Mr Justice Walker sitting in the High Court declared as unlawful the requirement for a “nomination form” in order for cohabitees to secure survivor pensions under the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in England and Wales.

The Home Office has agreed to pay an asylum seeker £15,500 in damages for unlawfully sharing confidential documentation regarding his persecution in his country of origin with the authorities there, in a bid to verify the documents’ authenticity.

A disability rights campaigner has issued judicial review proceedings in the High Court challenging the decision to cap support for disabled people in work under the Access to Work Scheme.

The Upper Tribunal has issued its decision in the Freedom of Information Act appeal by Rights Watch (UK) against the government’s refusal to disclose its lethal drone strike legal advice. Although the Tribunal refused to order disclosure of the advice, it made significant rulings regarding the...

EU Court today gave its judgment in the legal challenge to the UK's data retention law. The Court rejected the law.

The Health Secretary has settled a JR claim challenging the Government’s failure to consult on the removal of exemption from NHS charges from asylum seekers

The Court of Appeal have allowed the appeal on the Operation Nexus Challenge.