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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).
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...
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...
High Court Challenge to 'No Recourse to Public Funds' policy
High Court to decide whether to suspend ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy
Home Office No Recourse to Public Funds Policy found unlawful again
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...
DPG client secures High Court injunction allowing her to sit her A-levels next week.
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...