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A High Court judge has granted permission for a judicial review of the Home Office’s decision to evict a victim of trafficking from a safe house and on to the streets. In doing so, the judge extended an injunction forcing the Home Office to continue...

On Thursday 3 December 2015 the Information Tribunal hears an appeal by the Home Office against an Information Commissioner decision requiring it to release data regarding failures by commercial contractors at the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook immigration detention centres. In a freedom of information request, Phil...

On Thursday 3 December 2015 the Information Tribunal hears an appeal by the Home Office against an Information Commissioner decision requiring it to release data regarding failures by commercial contractors at the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook immigration detention centres. In a freedom of information request, Phil...

The Court of Appeal begins a two day hearing on 22 October 2015 to consider the lawfulness of key parts of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (‘DRIPA’). The High Court found in July that the power in DRIPA which permits the government...

The Court of Appeal’s Criminal Division convened a Special Court presided over by the Lord Chief Justice and heard six conjoined appeals over 23 and 24 November 2016 against conviction and sentence brought by appellants who are victims of trafficking. Judgment has been reserved. Our...

The Court of Appeal has declined to rule on the lawfulness of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (‘DRIPA’) and opted instead to refer the key issues to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). DRIPA permits the government to require telecommunications...

Allotment holders lose fight against Council to build on an allotment site that has served heavily-urbanised West Watford for 120 years.

David Cary has secured an impressive victory in his 9 year legal battle against the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCC). The trial of the Commissioner of Police that was due to start today November 1 has been vacated. Mr...

David Cary on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 talking about his legal battle against the police and Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

The IPCC has published a review of its investigation into the police handling of events leading to the domestic homicide of Rachael Slack and her two year old son Auden. It found a number of inadequacies in relation to the original IPCC investigation, which concluded...

Deighton Pierce Glynn has been instructed by Rights Watch UK to challenge the Prime Minister’s amendments to the Ministerial Code, which remove the reference to Ministers’ duty to uphold international law, Treaty obligations and the administration of justice. The Ministerial Code is a document issued...

We have been instructed by a number of patients to challenge guidance which requires hospitals to tell the Home Office if patients have received medical treatment but cannot pay for it, irrespective of whether the patient has consented to the sharing of the information. There...