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    • High Court quashes IOPC decision regarding police failure to arrest stalker who went on to murder Wafah Chkaifi
    • Court of Appeal to consider whether criminal injuries compensation rules breaches victim of domestic homicide’s daughter’s human rights
    • Child X, a black boy aged 13 years, subjected to violent arrest by firearms officers in Hackney
    • Covid-19 Public Inquiry : Opening Statements from the Disabled Persons Organisations and Long Covid Groups published
    • Long Covid Groups make an opening statement tomorrow in the Covid-19 public inquiry
    • Disabled People’s Organisations address Covid-19 Inquiry on the devastating impact of Government failures on Disabled people
    • Court of Appeal finds “clear injustice” when quashing our client’s childhood convictions
    • Prison open conditions decision unlawful
    • Three Metropolitan Police Officers to face gross misconduct proceedings for the decision to strip search Child Q
    • Met Police admission of liability and apology upon settlement of claims on behalf of Daniel Morgan family.
    • Tony Murphy appointed first Area Coroner for North London
    • Jury conclude that Kellie Sutton was unlawfully killed in self inflicted death following domestic abuse
    • High Court quashes IOPC decision that police officer who punched elderly Black man in the face has no case to answer for misconduct
    • Three years since the death of Baby Brooke Leigh Powell at HMP Styal on 18 June 2020
    • Lawyer in the News
    • High Court declares secret Home Office detention policy unlawful
    • High Court gives green light to challenge IOPC after it finds police officer who grabbed and punched elderly Black man has no case to answer for misconduct
    • Settlement achieved in road traffic stop handcuffing case
    • BBC File on Four radio programme profiles stop and search victim Jamar Powell
    • Court orders Home Secretary to pay £10k compensation to unaccompanied asylum seeking child
    • Court of Appeal grants permission to appeal CICA recovery of Article 2 damages
    • Coroner concludes that serious failings in psychiatric care contributed to death of transgender woman Sophie Williams
    • Coroner concludes that domestic abuse victim Lauren Murray died from suicide
    • Justice for migrants: give people proof of their rights
    • Metropolitan police pay damages for unlawful stop and excessive force
    • Hertfordshire police pay damages for unlawful arrest
    • Damages for failures in prosecution
    • Police force settle civil claim following allegations of rape and coercive control made against an Inspector
    • Bhatt Murphy ranked as a leading law firm in eight specialist areas in Chambers & Partners
    • Jury finds ‘gross neglect’ by privately-run mental health hospital caused patient’s death
    • Bhatt Murphy jointly shortlisted for Rule of Law Award for work on Brook House Public Inquiry
    • Prison pays damages to a woman prisoner restrained by officers when she was naked
    • Commissioner finally apologises for fist bump stop and search in February 2018
    • Jury find that ‘grave’ failures led to the unlawful killing of Lance Scott Walker
    • Met pay damages in another stop and search race claim
    • Bhatt Murphy act for National Long Covid and Disabled People’s Organisations in the Covid-19 Public Inquiry.
    • Senior Coroner concludes that gross failings and neglect contributed to death of Donna Neill
    • Met Police pay £10,000 damages for stop and search and handcuffing of Black man in his own garden
    • The government’s need to be seen as tough on immigration is driving the Rwanda plan and GPS monitoring – but at what cost?
    • Inquest concludes that serious state failings contributed to unlawful killing of eight week old Harper Denton
    • Daniel Morgan family statement in response to IOPC review of findings in June 2021 report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel.
    • Bhatt Murphy clients issue High Court challenge to government failure to implement Grenfell Inquiry recommendations on personal emergency evacuation plans (‘PEEPs’) for disabled people
    • Inquest finds multi-agency failures before the death of Jessie Laverack
    • Bereaved families, survivors and residents criticise central and local government failures in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower Fire
    • High Court discharges INEOS protest injunctions
    • Covid 19 Public Inquiry: LongCovidSOS call for inclusion of Long Covid in urgent Public Inquiry
  • News archive
    • Archived Human Rights stories
      • Tony Murphy appointed Assistant Coroner for North London
      • At last: inquiry begins into historical adoption abuses
      • On the Fourth Anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia's Assassination, Her Family Call for Action
      • Justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia
      • Grenfell Tower bereaved families, survivors and residents shine a light on 'Landmark act of discrimination'
      • Oil companies cave in on injunction
      • Raju Bhatt appointed as Assessor on Public Inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh
      • Rough sleeping migrants targeted with enforcement action
      • Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
      • UK Government seeks to prevent scrutiny of British intelligence agencies’ unlawful conduct in case relating to Rangzieb Ahmed
      • State Inquiry into Racist Attempted Murder at HMP Bristol
      • In memory of Mona Mahmoud
      • Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
      • Human Rights Lawyers Association
      • Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
      • Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
      • 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
      • 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
      • Jury blast failings around death in Lancashire police cell
      • Long-awaited inquest opens in 2016 police station death
      • Jury finds a myriad of mental health care failures and 'excessive force' caused death
      • Jury concludes failures contributed to death of Zoe Wilson
      • Torture survivor on hunger strike detained by home office died following shortcomings from the home office, prison service and healthcare providers.
      • Inquest jury finds that immigration officers may have contributed to death of asylum seeker
      • Inquest opens into the death of Zoe Adrienne Wilson
      • Inquest finds delay in delivery of baby Louie Johnston contributed to his death
      • Elysium's failings contributed to child's death
      • Critical failures by various agencies contributed to the death of vulnerable man, Adam Stanmore
      • Failures by Elysium Healthcare contributed to death of 19-year-old Brooke Martin
      • Inquest into the tragic death of 19-year-old Brooke Martin
      • Family failed by NHS Trust to open crisis house
      • Council unlawfully breached vulnerable man's right to life
      • 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
      • 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
      • Systems and individual 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 into 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
      • Publication of independent investigation into the death of Baby Brooke Leigh Powell at HMP Styal
      • Louise Powell speaks to Newsnight about the loss of her baby Brooke
      • The High Court has granted a life long worldwide injunction preserving the anonymity of two girl prisoners who committed murder as children.
      • 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
      • High Court hearing in torture case
      • Combatting Modern Slavery
      • Administrative Court orders release of vulnerable detainee
      • Maternity Action and DZT are refused permission in JR challenging health inequalities caused by NHS Charging Scheme
      • 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
      • Jury concludes several missed opportunities contributed to death of Amir Siman-Tov in immigration detention
      • 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
      • Daniel Morgan family statement in response to HMICFRS report on police corruption in the Met
      • Daniel Morgan family statement on the Met's response to the report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel
      • Police Complaints Training
      • Police delete unlawful caution
      • Daniel Morgan family statement on civil claim against Metropolitan Police
      • Police pay damages to survivor of modern slavery
      • Police damages for unlawful arrest
      • Met challenged by survivor of domestic abuse
      • Call for reform of Armed Policing
      • Hearing begins in the Inquiry into the death of Jermaine Baker
      • Met Police officer dismissed
      • Police Ban on Colston Protest Unlawful
      • Undercover Policing Inquiry
      • Founding leader of the Women's Equality Party seeks review into Met Police's mishandling of her stalking case
      • Inquiry grants anonymity to officers involved in Jermaine Baker shooting
      • Thames Valley Police compensate mother of abducted children
      • Challenge to police for ‘Fuck Boris’ T-shirt
      • Undercover Policing Inquiry Opening Statement
      • Court of Appeal judgment on shooting of Jermaine Baker
      • Fist bump’ stop and search brothers to sue Met
      • False charge over killing of PC Harper
      • Police apologise over ‘Fuck Boris’ T-shirt
      • Jordan Walker-Brown: Tasered, hospitalised but determined to seek justice!
      • Government Responds to The Anthony Grainger Inquiry
      • Times Lawyer of the Week: Chanel Dolcy
      • High Court orders the CPS to reconsider a decision not to bring charges over the alleged rape of a vulnerable teenager
      • 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 others deliver letter to Home Secretary calling for reform of the 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
      • Court of Appeal overturns cuts to 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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      • Shamik Dutta speaks about the police use of ‘spit hoods’
      • Met degrades disabled boy

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