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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.

The European Court of Human Rights found that the UK had unlawfully detained our client from mid-2008 to 14 September 2009

The Home Office and the Police are cracking down on EEA nationals under an unpublished policy. DPG are advising AIRE centre on challenging Operation Nexus

The Supreme Court has given important and positive new guidance on how the Home Office should assess detention of mentally ill foreign nationals

DPG law client Kim Jones has succeeded in her High Court test case which established that 100,000s of social housing tenants in the Thames Water region ...

National Aids Trust has forced NHS England to rethink its controversial decision to shelve plans to commission Antiretroviral Drugs for use for HIV.

The European Court of Human Rights has granted our client Anti-Slavery International permission to intervene in the significant case of Chowdhury v Greece, Application No: 21884/15. The plight of Mr Chowdhury and his fellow workers, who were migrants working as fruit pickers in Greece, was...