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Farm Terrace Allotments Judgment

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

Commissioner of Police settles sexual orientation discrimination case

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...

BBC4 Radio Interview of David Cary about his case against the police and the IPCC

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

IPCC accept failings in ‘totally under-resourced’ investigation in case of Rachael and Auden Slack

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...

Rights Watch UK instruct DPG to challenge amendment to Ministerial Code

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...

Court of Appeal finds that all patient information is confidential

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...

Figures obtained by the BBC show that black people are 3 times more likely to be tasered

Hear DPG’s client, Daniel Sylvester, talk about his experience here, here and here.

Oiljustice on tour – education-law-politics-entertainment!

Gilberto Torres, the trade unionist who was kidnapped and tortured after he challenged oil companies in Colombia is coming to England, Scotland and Wales to tell his story. Oiljustice will be touring cities around the UK to educate, agitate and organise about the effects of...

Jane Deighton on BBC Radio 4 talking about the use of police body cameras

Jane Deighton was on BBC Radio 4 this morning talking about the use police body cameras.

Equality advice helpline contract challenge to be heard in the High Court on 29 September 2016

The challenge to the Government’s decision to award the contract for the national discrimination advice helpline to G4S is to be heard in the High Court on 29 September 2016.

High Court finds Sudanese military committing serious human rights violations but refuses to halt British-Sudanese military assistance

In a rare finding regarding foreign human rights violations, the High Court found in a judgment today that the Sudanese Armed Forces are “currently involved in serious human rights violations” and that the charge that they are responsible for appalling human rights violations including deliberate...

High Court considers that legal challenge to MoJ Saudi prison bid raises significant issue of public interest; Government facing mounting criticism over bid

A High Court Judge has ruled that the Gulf Center for Human Rights’ legal challenge to the Ministry of Justice’s controversial bid to sell prison services to the Saudi state raises “a significant issue which the public interest requires should be resolved”. On this basis...