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Our client has set up a CrowdJustice page to raise funds for their case against the Government. We are requesting that the Government immediately stops the export of tear gas, rubber bullets, and other potentially lethal equipment, until there is no longer any risk that...

This judicial review claim, brought by Mr Trevor Donald and intervened by Black Equity Organisation (BEO), UNISON and Speaker of the House of Commons, concerned the Government’s decision to abandon 3 of the 30 recommendations made by Wendy Williams in her Windrush Lessons Learned Review (WLLR) report following exposure of the Windrush scandal. The Government accepted all 30 recommendations and promised to implement them. The 3 recommendations are: Recommendation 3 (to hold reconciliation events), Recommendation 9 (to appoint a Migrants Commissioner) and Recommendation 10 (to consider expanding the role and remit of the ICIBI).

DPG client secures damages following the Home Office’s failure to spot that she was being exploited by her employer. Like many women living in poverty, our client was lured to the Arabian Peninsula with the promise of a good job, but instead she was subjected...

The Home Office has agreed to review its ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy – a key plank of Theresa May’s hostile environment – and pay our clients compensation following successful legal action. In 2012 the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, decided that people granted...

Hospital Trust suspends car park charges for blue badge holders following claim for judicial review.

12 June 2024 Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have jointly applied to the Administrative Court to intervene in a legal proceedings challenging the UK government’s approval of over 100 arms export licences to Israel since October 2023. The judicial review claim, brought by Palestinian...

Prime Minister is asked to fulfil his promise that military-grade equipment will not be exported to the US if it is used for internal repression. Following the brutal and racist killing of George Floyd by a police officer and the widespread protests that immediately followed...

On 23 May 2024 the High Court dismissed our client’s (Carralyn Parkes) judicial review in Parkes v Dorset Council, [2024] EWHC 1253, which argued that Dorset Council has the power to enforce planning authority over the Bibby Stockholm barge. Our client is disappointed that a...

The High Court is to rule on whether the Home Office’s new ‘scheduling rule’ is incompatible with the international Convention implemented by the UK to combat the trafficking in human beings and whether the new rule discriminates against victims of trafficking who have made an...

High Court challenge to ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy

The Court of Appeal to hear the application to appeal against Government's decision on the legality of Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs).