Migrants will be given free hi-vis jackets if they move next to a rural village.

In the first case of its kind, the High Court has ordered the Home Secretary to take all reasonable steps to bring DPG’s client, GIP, back from France to the UK.

1. In a landmark ruling [ES1.1]regarding the Government’s flagship policy of removing asylum seekers to France, the High Court has today found that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully when it removed ...

We are proud to congratulate our solicitor Amalia King on receiving the Public Law Award at the 2026 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) Awards.

Ronnie was 47 years old when he died at HMP Woodhill on 30 April 2024 as a result of Spice use. He was known by his family as a practical joker who loved to make people around him laugh.

The High Court has delivered a judgment that could have a major impact on how the UK government treats some of the most vulnerable asylum seekers.

In a significant development for survivors of trafficking, the Home Office has conceded[ES1.1] a claim for judicial review relating to serious failures to identify and protect a survivor of traffickin...

When Alison McDermott, Dr Hinaa Toheed and Susanna Hickman Gray issued a claim for judicial review against the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (“JCIO”), it was the first time that the judicial ...

This month’s blog focuses on systemic failures to protect and support survivors of trafficking and exploitation, who often arrive in the UK having been subjected to profound harm and control, by provi...

When two newly granted refugees took on the Home Office, they did so not just for themselves but for thousands of others across the UK. Their successful challenge has reshaped a critical policy affect...

On 16 February 2026, the inquest into the death of Simon Ludlow at HMP The Mount on 25 November 2023 concluded.  The Coroner is due to issue a report on the prevention of future deaths. The jury recor...

Leading human rights organisations have submitted a formal request for UK sanctions against Bahrain’s Interior Minister, General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, under the UK’s Global Human Righ...

The High Court has today handed down a landmark judgment in the case of R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] EWHC 292 (Admin) finding that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully...

22 January 2026 Our client, a Filipino domestic worker subjected to modern slavery by a diplomat in London, has secured a landmark judgment against the United Arab Emirates. This is believed to be the...

On 15 January 2026, the High Court granted permission on all grounds for three clients represented by DPG, Susannah Hickman‑Gray, Alison McDermott and Dr Hinaa Toheed, to proceed to a final hearing in...

On 15 January 2026, the Manston Inquiry held its first Preliminary Hearing. The Inquiry, chaired by Sophie Cartwright KC, is examining the unlawful detention and inhumane conditions at Manston Short-T...

Exclusive: After serving 13 years on a ‘hopeless, desperate, barbaric’ indefinite jail term, Taylor Atkinson ended his own life. This week an inquest concluded that his IPP sentence was likely the mos...

Exclusive: After serving 13 years on a ‘hopeless, desperate, barbaric’ indefinite jail term, Taylor Atkinson ended his own life. This week an inquest concluded that his IPP sentence was likely the mos...

The High Court heard the judicial review of the UK government’s decision to ‘proscribe’ the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation (R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Dep...

This month’s blog focuses on the move-on support provided to individuals with newly granted international protection status, which frequently leaves people who the Government has accepted require sanc...

The former head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Max Hill KC, has told this programme the government must make tackling domestic abuse suicides a priority in its long-awaited violence against women a...

Our new report, Profiting from People: Inside the UK’s Asylum Hotels , exposes the true horrors that refugees face whilst housed for years on end in asylum hotels. We’ve long known this, and now...

DPG continues to push for justice for asylum seekers subjected to unlawful detention and inhumane conditions at Manston Short-Term Holding Facility in Autumn 2022, when overcrowding, neglect, and mist...

In this month’s blog we reflect on the landmark Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) on states’ obligations regarding climate change, including the link between environmental...

The Administrative court has granted permission for judicial review in our eVisa policy challenge on significant wider public interest ground. The SSHD is accused of having an unlawful policy of only ...

Date of report: 02/10/2025 Ref: 2025-0491 Deceased name: Georgia Barter Coroner name: Dr Shirley Radcliffe Coroner Area: East London Category:  Community health care and emergency services related dea...

A London coroner found Georgia Barter’s death was caused by years of violence and coercive control by Thomas Bignell. Her family want justice, but the CPS won’t charge him and the police can’t find hi...

A London coroner found Georgia Barter’s death was caused by years of violence and coercive control by Thomas Bignell. Her family want justice, but the CPS won’t charge him and the police can’t find hi...

The right to protest is of fundamental importance to a thriving democracy. Protests have played a crucial role in some of history’s most important social movements. From the Stonewall Riots of 1969, t...

Amnesty International UK and Liberty have been given permission to jointly intervene in the judicial review challenging the UK government’s decision to ‘proscribe’ the protest group Palestine Action a...

DPG client Palestine Solidarity Campaign (“PSC”) has issued a request backed by detailed legal submissions in a Position Paper to every council in England & Wales administering a Local Government Pens...

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (‘PSC’) and Deighton Peirce Glynn have written to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Local Government Pension Scheme (‘LGPS’)

Welcome to DPG’s third post in our legal blog series. This month’s blog focuses on the Government’s White Paper which outlines proposed changes to the UK immigration system. It critiques the dangerous...

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Before HM Assistant Coroner Bernard Richmond KCInner West London Coroners Court23 July – 6 August 2025

Super Injunctions, Afghanistan, and UK Law

DPG are instructed by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (‘IWGB’), which represents private hire drivers on apps such as Uber and Bolt, to challenge the systemic and ongoing delays in TfL...

The High Court has given an important judgment regarding applications for protection under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (“ARAP”). In particular, those made by members of Afghan ‘Triple...

Welcome to DPG’s second post in our new legal blog series. This month’s blog focuses on new police misconduct legislation and gives an insight into the police complaints system as a whole. Amendments ...

The country’s largest police force has paid five-figure damages to a woman who challenged its investigation into complaints of rape and domestic abuse she made against her then husband. The woman, who...