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Advocate General gives opinion in legal challenge on UK data retention law.

DPG have provided a submission to the Parliamentary JCHR, calling for practical reforms to enhance accountability for corporate human rights violations.

The High Court today declared that key parts of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 breach EU law and must be disapplied. The Act was rushed through parliament in one week in July 2014, allowing little time for thorough debate or civil society...

Ali Agab Nour, a Sudanese lawyer and refugee, will challenge the British Government’s decision to provide military training to the Sudanese Army today in the High Court. It is well-documented that the Sudanese Army regularly and systematically perpetrate truly appalling human rights violations including mass...

The National Aids Trust (NAT) is taking NHS England to court for refusing to provide PrEP, a “game changer” in the fight against HIV.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones has successfully settled its Freedom of Information Challenge to the Cross-Government Working Group on Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems’s refusal to release details of its deliberations regarding drones policy in the UK. Unusually for a FOIA case, the parties...

A campaign started on social media highlighted the prejudice caused by State Pension Age changes for women born in the 1950s. The 1995 Conservative Government’s State Pension Act included plans to increase women’s state pension age from 60 to 65 so that it was the...

A High Court challenge was launched today against the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) for selling its services to the Saudi Government. The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) is challenging the legality of the MOJ’s decision to bid for a contract to provide support through...

330,000 tenants in the Thames Water region entitled to claim refunds. Tenants … liable to pay a water charge to a local authority landlord/housing assoc...

Despite agreeing to reconsider its decision to shelve plans to commission PrEP for HIV, the NHS has decided that it does not have the power to fund PrEP.

The judicial review challenge to the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (‘DRIPA’) brought by the MPs David Davis and Tom Watson is being heard today in the High Court. Deighton Pierce Glynn are representing the interveners: Open Rights Group and Privacy International; who...

Former head of state Rios Montt has for several years faced Genocide charges in the Guatemalan courts.