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Challenge to Mass Data Retention Heard in Court of Justice of EU

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

Overcrowding and Mixed Sex Sharing

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,...

Trafficking victim wins Judicial Review of Reasonable Grounds trafficking decision

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...

Torture victims risk death penalty if convicted at secret trial today

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...

Complaint Against FIFA re. Human Rights Failures

Deighton Pierce Glynn are representing Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) in filing a complaint with the Swiss Government’s National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines in respect of FIFA’s failure to investigate evidence of complicity of FIFA members including the candidate...