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DPG lawyer selected for distinguished leadership program

Unkha Banda has been selected to participate in the hugely prestigious US Government International Visitor Leadership Program on Strategic Litigation for Social Change. The project was designed by U.S. Embassy London to support practitioners in the UK in developing a better understanding of how legal...

High Court ruling over ‘no recourse to public funds’ delivers further blow to Home Office’s discredited hostile environment policy

An 8-year-old British boy – supported by his migrant mother – has today won a ruling that the policy denying families like his access to the welfare safety net is unlawful. The judges in the case heard that the boy, whose identity is protected by...

Home Office faces High Court challenge over legality of ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy

High Court Challenge to 'No Recourse to Public Funds' policy

Find out more about the Home Office’s No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) policy

High Court to decide whether to suspend ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy

Home Office’s ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy found unlawful again

Home Office No Recourse to Public Funds Policy found unlawful again

Inquest jury finds self-inflicted death at Woodhill prison was unlawful killing

Robert Fenlon, 36, died a self-inflicted death whilst on remand at Woodhill prison on 5 March 2016. Now an inquest jury has concluded that the reprehensible failures by two senior prison officers involved amounted to unlawful killing by gross negligence manslaughter. This is the first...

Right to study case success

DPG client secures High Court injunction allowing her to sit her A-levels next week.

Claim against home office by migrant subjected to dehumanising treatiment

Our client has commenced a legal challenge against the Home Office, its staff and agents, in respect of the way that she was dealt with by staff at her asylum support accommodation provided to our client under the Home Office’s Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract...

Hearing to challenge decision not to implement Windrush recommendations to be heard tomorrow

The claim concerns the decision not to proceed with three of the recommendations made by Wendy Williams, in her Windrush Lessons Learned Review report

Court of Appeal judgment on Home Office’s Article 3 duties in NRPF context

Court of Appeal recognises right to damages where a person subject to the NRPF condition faced an imminent risk of inhuman and degrading treatment.

Free School meals extended to thousands more children

In response to a letter sent by us on behalf of our client, the government has confirmed that thousands more children will receive free school meals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Free school meals are available to children whose families receive certain means-tested benefits such as...

Compensation awarded to trafficking victims left in limbo due to unlawful home office policy

Two survivors of trafficking who successfully challenged a Home Office policy which was found to discriminate against trafficking victims who also had applications for asylum, have been awarded damages for the breach of their Human Rights.