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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The Home Office and the Police are cracking down on EEA nationals under an unpublished policy.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...

Challenge to Mass Data Retention in EU Court of Justice. Open Rights Group and Privacy International made submissions today...

Redbridge council placed a homeless family of 4 in one room in a hostel for 8 months. A case such as this is yet to be tested by the courts because a few days before the hearing Redbridge offered the family a 2 bedroom flat,...

At the High Court Monday 22nd February 2016, Mr Justice Dove read out his judgment in the case of R(FX) v Secretary of State for Home Department and concluded that the Home Office unlawfully decided that our client was not a victim of trafficking. Our...

Four DPG clients are today facing a secret trial in Abu Dhabi Supreme Federal Court. They have instructed Geoffrey Robertson QC to prepare an Opinion . It finds that their treatment of 4 businessmen breaches international law. Salim Alaradi, a dual Canadian and Libyan nationality...