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Grenfell Tower Inquiry publishes Phase 1 report
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Lawyer in the News: Tony Murphy
Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
Victory for protest rights across the UK
LGBT History Month: Jane Ryan recognised for her work for the LGBT+ community
The memory of Seni Lewis lives on at the launch of the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards 2019
High Court in Northern Ireland to hear woman’s abortion rights case
European Court finds UK Government in violation of John Catt’s privacy rights
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Janet Farrell wins Humanist of the Year award 2018
'Seni’s Law’ receives Royal Assent
Fracking and the Right to Protest
Joint Committee On Human Rights inquiry into Immigration Detention
Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Ministers to debate apology for historical adoption practices on 12 July.
Memorial to Kamil and Bijan
Race hate murder was avoidable
Supreme Court finds that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws breach human rights
Edward Daffarn, co-author of the Grenfell Action Group Blog interviewed by Channel 4 News
Snoopers’ Charter ruled unlawful: Liberty wins first battle in challenge to Investigatory Powers Act
The Daphne Project
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Terrorism, Policing and Human Rights
Bhatt Murphy represent Liberty in ‘Snoopers Charter’ legal challenge
Megan Phillips joins Bhatt Murphy partnership
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
Archived European Court of Human Rights stories
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
Archived Inquest stories
Coroner highlights possible increased suicide risk amongst young Eritrean refugees
INQUEST Conference
Inquest into death of 20 year old Sasha Forster in care of Surrey mental health services begins
Priory Group convicted of breach of health and safety law and fined £300k following death of Amy El-Keria
Inquest finds serious failures at Sodexo run HMP Peterborough contributed to death of Annabella Landsberg
Inquest into the death of Annabella Landsberg
Inquest jury find that “systemic failures” by police preceded Donna Williamson domestic homicide
Donna Williamson inquest to start on Monday 4 Feb
Systemic failures contributed to the death of Tyrone Givans at HMP Pentonville
Gross failures in care contributed to the death of Catherine Horton at Bethlem Royal Hospital
Neglect and serious medical failures contributed to death of Natasha Chin
Neglect and systems failures contributed to the death of Amanda Briley at the Bradgate Unit in Leicestershire
HM Coroner adjourns inquest into death of Branko Zdravkovic following jury verdict
Inquest into the death of Natasha Chinn
Inquest in to the death of Natasha Chin
Sister speaks out about the death of Annabella Landsberg at HMP Peterborough
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
Elderly prisoner sues MOJ over rats in prison
Court overturns Parole Board decision
Transgender prisoner succeeds in judicial review
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
Home Office admits unlawful detention of man with serious mental illness
State failures to protect immigration detainees
Gay asylum seeker who was subjected to homophobic abuse secures damages for unlawful detention
Death of immigration detainee could have been prevented, inquest concludes
Vindication of refugee children's rights
Home Office failed to tell the truth about reason for asylum seeker’s detention
Court of Appeal finds the Home Office discriminated against immigration detainees
Missed opportunities contributed to death of Amir Siman-Tov
Home Office ordered to pay damages for breach of child’s rights
Settlement in Medical Justice judicial review challenging Home Office definition of torture
Judgment hailed as a ‘masterclass’ in pressing for disclosure.
The hostile environment: The Windrush scandal
Windrush: The unlawful, unfair, discriminatory treatment of people with a legal right to remain in the UK
Important Upper Tribunal decision on asylum seeking children’s rights
Home Office admits it unlawfully separated a father from his daughter
Challenge to detention of torture survivors
Home Secretary breached child refugee’s rights
Unlawful treatment of immigration detainee with serious mental illness
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
Anthony Grainger Inquiry
Daniel Morgan family statement on damages award in murder suspects' claim against police
The Anthony Grainger Inquiry
The Anthony Grainger Inquiry
Speed kills: are police chases out of control?
Linah Keza: officers found guilty of gross misconduct in domestic homicide case
Gross misconduct proceedings start against MPS officers in connection with Linah Keza murder
Police failures in domestic homicide case
Metropolitan Police apology to civil rights campaigner Stafford Scott
Finding of gross misconduct against police officer
Misconduct hearing for police officer
Police Damages for disclosure of family's safe address
New 'Seni Lewis Award' to recognise collaborative work between police and health service
Daniel Morgan family statement on Court of Appeal judgment in murder suspects' claim against police
Police Damages for failure to protect teenage witness
IOPC to investigate whether stop and search was discriminatory
Mrs Sharon Grant OBE and Dr Neville Lawrence OBE call on Home Secretary to reform Undercover Policing Inquiry
Met Officer facing gross misconduct hearing
Admission of Liability and Damages secured following data breaches by police officer
Police Officer Faces Criminal Trial
Bijan Ebrahimi deceased
Apology and Damages following mistaken police raid on family home
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
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
Major damages achieved in claim for severe psychiatric illness caused by police racism
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
Home Secretary concedes judicial review following brutal domestic violence against woman refugee
Bhatt Murphy acts in judicial review challenging health inequalities caused by NHS Charging Scheme
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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Published Monday December 2 2019
Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
The family of Daphne Caruana Galizia has today called for the Prime Minister of Malta to be criminally investigated.
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Published Friday November 15 2019
Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
The panel members and terms of reference for the Public Inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta have been released today
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Published Monday November 4 2019
Grenfell Tower Inquiry publishes Phase 1 report
The Phase 1 report for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry was published on 30 October 2019.
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Published Tuesday September 10 2019
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The family of Daphne Caruana Galizia has asked the Foreign Office to support the call for a public inquiry into her assassination
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Published Tuesday July 23 2019
Lawyer in the News: Tony Murphy
Tony Murphy is featured as the Law Society Gazette's Lawyer in the News this week for his work on the Grainger Inquiry.
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Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
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Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
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Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
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Victory for protest rights across the UK
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LGBT History Month: Jane Ryan recognised for her work for the LGBT+ community
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The memory of Seni Lewis lives on at the launch of the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards 2019
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High Court in Northern Ireland to hear woman’s abortion rights case
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European Court finds UK Government in violation of John Catt’s privacy rights
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Daphne Caruana Galizia
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Janet Farrell wins Humanist of the Year award 2018
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'Seni’s Law’ receives Royal Assent
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Fracking and the Right to Protest
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Joint Committee On Human Rights inquiry into Immigration Detention
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Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
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Daphne Caruana Galizia
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Ministers to debate apology for historical adoption practices on 12 July.
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Memorial to Kamil and Bijan
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Race hate murder was avoidable
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Supreme Court finds that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws breach human rights
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Edward Daffarn, co-author of the Grenfell Action Group Blog interviewed by Channel 4 News
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Snoopers’ Charter ruled unlawful: Liberty wins first battle in challenge to Investigatory Powers Act
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The Daphne Project
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Daphne Caruana Galizia
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Terrorism, Policing and Human Rights
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Bhatt Murphy represent Liberty in ‘Snoopers Charter’ legal challenge
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Megan Phillips joins Bhatt Murphy partnership
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Mr Kamil Ahmad deceased
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‘Seni’s law’ in House of Commons for MPs’ vote
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Landmark review on deaths in police custody
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Kamil Ahmad deceased
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UN Special Rapporteur publishes 2016 UK report
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Concern at propoals to limit the Human Rights Act
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UN Intervention in Belhaj appeal
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UN Special Rapporteur publishes 2016 UK report
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Concern at propoals to limit the Human Rights Act
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Bhatt Murphy instructed in The People vs Snoopers charter legal challenge
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Access to Justice Commission – Interim Report
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Transgender rights in Criminal Justice
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Birth parents to deliver call for public enquiry
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Public Inquiry sought into adoption practices
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Transgender Europe Legal Network Seminar
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Bach report into legal aid
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RebLaw UK 2017
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