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Court of Appeal to hear Gulf Center for Human Rights Challenge against the Prime Minister’s 2015 changes to the Ministerial Code
Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) has launched a CrowdJustice drive to challenge the decision of the organiser and main sponsors of the Royal Windsor Horse Show to celebrate the King of Bahrain at the event, in in light of the country’s suppression of pro-democracy campaigners and human rights abuses.
Undercover police officer N81, who spied on Duwayne Brooks, the Lawrences and justice campaigns has been named by the Inquiry today as David Hagan.
DPG client Duwayne Brooks OBE joins 60 others who have been spied upon in protest at the lack of progress in this Inquiry and to campaign for the appoint of a panel of persons with relevant experience to run the Inquiry.
Today marks a month since women detained at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre began their hunger strike against inadequate healthcare and other conditions they describe as inhumane, at the centre.
David Buxton, Deaf campaigner and CEO of Action on Disability, has been interviewed by BBC See Hear in connection with the Access to Work cap.
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.