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Deighton Pierce Glynn is proud to support the University of Law’s groundbreaking Human Rights and Technology Research Clinic. Launched in collaboration with Privacy International, this innovative initiative allows students to explore the intersection of technology and human rights, tackling urgent legal and ethical challenges.

Five children, age 6 months, 2, 5, 7 and 10, from three different families, are today (14 November) taking the UK government to the high court over an ’unlawful’ policy which is forcing them and their parents into destitution. The three separate cases which will...

The inquest has concluded into the death of Amir Safi, an Afghan national, who had sought asylum in the UK. He died of injuries sustained in a collision after he was seen walking on an M1 slip road at about 4:30am on 28 April 2023,...

The Times Best Law Firms 2025 has named Deighton Pierce Glynn as one of the top three law firms in England and Wales in the practice areas of Human Rights and Administrative & Public Law.

A jury in Bristol has concluded that the self-inflicted death of a vulnerable woman in prison was contributed to by neglect by the prison.

On 21 February 1991, Rolan Adams and his younger brother Nathan were on their way home from playing table-tennis at a local youth club when they were both brutally attacked by a gang of racist white youths. Rolan was fatally stabbed in the throat. Rolan...

Richard Adams and John Burke-Monerville to give evidence at the Undercover Policing Inquiry on Thursday 24 October. Richard Adams’ two sons were attacked by a gang of racists when going home from playing table tennis at their youth club on February 21 1991.  Rolan, 15,...

Court proceedings have now been issued by our clients The Good Law Project and 3 cross-party MPs – Debbie Abrahams, Caroline Lucas and Layla Moran – challenging the government’s routine failure to publish details of contracts awarded in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic response. The...

The Home Office recently agreed to pay substantial damages to our client who was trafficked to the UK and whose trafficking indicators were missed by the Home Office. Our client (anonymised as ‘AX’) suffered multiple periods of trafficking as a domestic worker, both overseas and...

DPG are delighted to congratulate Emily Soothill on her appointment to the partnership. Emily has worked in our Bristol office since September 2017 and specialises in complex group claims and public law challenges. She has brought several important cases including challenges to the legality of...

We are instructed in a case to challenge the UK's exports of arms equipment (tear gas, rubber bullets, and the like) to the US, that we have all seen is being used to repress peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters.

Good Law Project and 3 Cross-party MPs have launched a judicial review to challenge the Government’s repeated failures to lawfully publish contract award notices, in respect of contracts connected to Covid-19, which have been awarded. The Claimants challenge the widespread systemic failure of the Secretary...