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Our client successfully challenged her refusal of a student loan by way of judicial review. After being granted humanitarian protection (a form of leave to remain in the UK) in recognition that returning to her country of origin would breach her human rights, our client...

The inquest touching upon the death of Jessica Powell has concluded, with the jury finding that the acute mental health ward in which she was detained failed to adequately supervise and secure a room which was fitted with windows that Jessica might reasonably believe she could escape through, and that she died trying to climb through one of those windows.

The High Court has today decided that the Home Office’s approach to protecting victims of trafficking is unlawful. The test case was brought by two victims of trafficking, who challenged the Home Office’s policy of refusing to grant them leave to remain in the UK...

3 December 2024 The parents of Jessica Powell are hoping that an upcoming inquest will answer their questions about their daughter’s death following an incident on a mental health ward 4 years ago. Jessica died on 22 August 2020 following an incident on 19 August...

The firm has supported the struggle for human rights in Colombia since 2008 when Sue Willman joined an international delegation of lawyers with the Colombian Caravana UK lawyers group, visiting Colombia at the request of local human rights defenders/lawyers who faced daily threats and attacks...

The High Court has declared the Home Office’s system for deciding ‘Change of Conditions’ applications unlawful, finding that it breaches Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights because the Home Office “does not have an adequate system in place to reduce, to a...

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...