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Mr Kamil Ahmad deceased
‘Seni’s law’ in House of Commons for MPs’ vote
Landmark review on deaths in police custody
Kamil Ahmad deceased
UN Special Rapporteur publishes 2016 UK report
Concern at propoals to limit the Human Rights Act
UN Intervention in Belhaj appeal
UN Special Rapporteur publishes 2016 UK report
Concern at propoals to limit the Human Rights Act
Bhatt Murphy instructed in The People vs Snoopers charter legal challenge
Access to Justice Commission – Interim Report
Transgender rights in Criminal Justice
Birth parents to deliver call for public enquiry
Public Inquiry sought into adoption practices
Transgender Europe Legal Network Seminar
Bach report into legal aid
RebLaw UK 2017
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European Court to hear John Catt legal challenge
European Court gives lifers “right to hope”
Challenge to Whole Life Tariffs heard by European Court
European Court refers ‘whole ‘life’ cases to the Grand Chamber
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Jury finds systematic failings at HMP Bedford contributed to the death of Mark Vagnoni
Coroner calls for changes to treatment of child refugees
Jury finds serious failings following inquest into death of Caroline Hunt
Damning inquest findings on police restraint death of Seni Lewis
Roundtable on Deaths in Custody Inquests
Bhatt Murphy contributes to Deepcut Review
Jury finds serious failings following inquest into death of Caroline Hunt
Damning inquest findings on police restraint death of Seni Lewis
Inquest opens into the death of Olaseni Lewis
Vulnerable teenager failed by prison system
Justice for Amy
No chages to be brought in the Lewis investigation
Gross failings contributed to death
Inquest opens into death of 15 year old Christopher Brennan
Roundtable on Deaths in Custody Inquests
Jury finds Priory's gross failings contributed to the death of 14 year Amy El-Keria
Amy El-Keria deceased
Jack Susianta inquest concludes
Inquest Jury Criticises Police Failings
Archived Prisoners' Rights stories
Prison Damages for failure to protect under Article 2
Transgender woman prisoner receives settlement and apologies from the Prison Service
Conference on parole
Tara Hudson welcomes transgender policy review
Transgender woman receives settlement and apology from the Prison Service
Article in The Guardian
Duty of Care to Cellmate in Jail Suicide
LGBTQ People In Prison
International Women’s Day – What More Can the Law do for Women?
Simon Creighton on Unreliable Evidence
Conference on parole
Archived Immigration Detention & Migrant Rights stories
Crisis of EU Migrants detained in the UK
Detention of Zimbabwean national unlawful
Immigration detention unfair to detainees lacking capacity
LAG update on immigration detention
Shaw Review published
Immigration detainees in prison
Judgment exposes Home Office illegality in the detention of torture victims
Coroner calls for changes to treatment of child refugees following death of Mohammed Hassan
Government request to delay family reunification of refugee children refused
Lesbian asylum seeker successful challenge to detention in Yarl’s Wood
Report on restraint of dying immigration detainee
Successful Challenge for Calais Children
Lords Vote to End Immigration Detention of Pregnant Women
Parliamentary event on Pregnant Women in detention
Jane Ryan joins the '99 Women' campaign
High Court finds immigration detention unlawful
Detained fast track unfair for vulnerable woman
Home Office to review detention of pregnant women
Home Secretary breaches Article 4
Court orders return of deported Nigerian family
Immigration detainees in prisons
£52,000 to stroke victim for unlawful detention
Parliamentary Inquiry into immigration detention
Inhuman and degrading treatment at Yarl’s Wood
BID intervention before Court of Appeal
Unlawful detention of a pregnant woman
Challenge to the detention of pregnant women
Guidance on immigration detention of those with mental illness
BiD granted permission to intervene before Court of Appeal
Home Secretary pays £40,000 to immigration detainee
High Court orders release of detainee with severe mental illness
Bhatt Murphy client challenges discriminatory immigration 'spot check’
Home Secretary pays £40,000 to immigration detainee
Victory for claimants in children and pregnant women use of force challenge
Home Secretary concedes detainee’s treatment was inhuman and degrading
Home Affairs Select Committee critical of UK Border Agency over immigration detention
Home Secretary unlawfully detains genocide survivor
Challenge to the legality of the detention of a Somalian detainee
Home Office found to have unlawfully detained man for 13 months
Home Secretary acted unlawfully
Archived Police Misconduct stories
Report finds evidence of discriminatory behaviour and institutional racism
Met removes caution from victim of domestic abuse
Conclusion of gross misconduct hearing on police restraint death of Seni Lewis
IPCC investigative failures prompt legal action
Police Officers on trial
Anthony Grainger deceased
Police officer charged
Justice for Bijan
Removal of caution secured for vulnerable teenager
Transgender Discrimination in Strip Search
Anthony Grainger Inquiry
Caution revoked
Successful challenge to a police caution
Apology for pregant mother assaulted in cell
Justice for Bijan
PC and PCSO guilty of misconduct in public office
Coroner must summon jury
Bhatt Murphy client profiled in Vice article
Bijan Ebrahimi deceased
CPS to consider charges for assault on pregnant detainee
Rashan Charles inquest to take place in June 2018
Rashan Charles: family look to IPCC for answers
Major damages achieved in claim for severe psychiatric illness caused by police racism
Rashan Charles: family look to IPCC for answers
IPCC investigate failures prompt legal action
Anthony Grainger deceased
Police Officers on trial
Justice for Bijan
Transgender Discrimination in Strip Search
File on 4: Policing the Police
Police Officer Charged
Anthony Grainger Inquiry
Caution revoked after spit-hood arrest
Anthony Grainger Inquiry
Justice for Anthony
Justice for Bijan
Daniel Morgan family statement on murder suspects' claim against police
Police Officer dismissed for accessing police files
Apology and settlement secured following armed detention
Justice for Judah
Justice for Anthony Grainger
Shamik Dutta speaks to BBC about police ‘spit hoods’
IPCC refer Jermaine Baker case to CPS
IPCC to investigate arrest of Ik Aihie
Edric Kennedy-Macfoy accepts Met Police invitation to help train police officers
Met Police required to compensate Cherry Groce’s children for 1985 shooting
Met Police seek to avoid liability to Cherry Groce’s family for 1985 shooting
Justice for Bijan
Police Apology and Damages for Assault on Student
Justice for Anthony
Bijan Ebrahimi deceased
Press photographer complains about police behaviour at Corbyn Rally
Archived Public Law stories
Judicial review success for torture victims
Supreme Court grants permission to intervene in NI abortion rights case
Liberty gets go-ahead to challenge Snoopers’ Charter in the High Court
Supreme Court rejects NI women's right to NHS abortions
Supreme Court intervention for British Humanist Association
Liberty gets go-ahead to challenge Snoopers’ Charter in the High Court
Government backs down and allows NI women free NHS abortions
Prison legal aid
Supreme Court rejects NI women's right to NHS abortions
Challenge to detention of victims of torture
European Court to hear John Catt legal challenge
Successful challenge for Calais children
Calais children reunited with family in UK
UN Intervention in Belhaj appeal
Permission granted in prison law legal aid challenge
Senior judges split over extremism database
Supreme Court to consider stop and search power
Supreme Court to hear John Catt legal challenge
Prisoner wins judicial review
Government backs down and allows NI women free NHS abortions
Supreme Court hears Northern Ireland abortion rights case
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