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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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

BBC Radio and the Belfast Telegraph have reported on Denise Brewster’s on-going Crowdjustice campaign to raise funds for her Supreme Court appeal. Ms Brewster’s case challenges rules in pension schemes which discriminate against couples who are not married or in civil partnerships and which prevent...

BBC Radio and the Belfast Telegraph have reported on Denise Brewster’s on-going Crowdjustice campaign to raise funds for her Supreme Court appeal. Ms Brewster’s case challenges rules in pension schemes which discriminate against couples who are not married or in civil partnerships and which prevent...

DPG act for LCN in a legal challenge to the Government’s decision to award the contract for operating the national discrimination advice helpline to G4S.