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PrEP judgment eagerly awaited

Interest in the outcome of NAT’s challenge to NHS controversial decision to not fund PrEP for HIV remains high. Judgement is expected in the next few weeks.

Farm Terrace Allotments Fight for Survival

Allotment holders are fighting a third attempt by the Council to build on an allotment site that has served heavily-urbanised West Watford for 120 years.

Business & Human Rights: Parliament Submission

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

Successful Intervention in Judicial Review of Data Retention Legislation

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...

Legality of UK Training of Sudan’s Army Challenge heard in High Court

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...

Legal action against NHS for halting HIV “game-changer”

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

Details of UK Policy Making on Drones to be Released

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...

DPG instructed by Crowd funded Womens Pension Campaign

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...

Court action launched challenging UK-Saudi Prisons deal

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...

Water charge test case: council to repay £28.6m

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...

National Aids Trust takes court action over PrEP funding

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.