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The Home Office is legally required to make additional weekly payments to pregnant women and for children under 3 years old of £3/£5 to meet their additional nutritional needs.

University of Bristol rejects call for a 'meaningful' apology for discrimination linked to student's death. Equality and Human Rights Commission issues advice to the Higher Education sector

The Home Office has granted citizenship to DPG client Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, a prominent Bahrain Pro-Democracy and Human Rights Activist, after he challenged the lawfulness of over 3 years of delays in deciding his application. Pre-action letters challenging the lawfulness of these lengthy delays were...

Children’s Commissioner asked to investigate Home Office’s hostile environment policy.

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...