Advanced Search
From
To
Select category
Top Stories
Submit
About us
Can We Help You?
Awards & Rankings
Notable Cases
Our Expertise
Public Law
Police misconduct / Actions against the Police
Prisoner’s Rights
Immigration detention and migrant rights
Inquests
European Court of Human Rights
Women’s Rights
Public Inquiries
Health and Social Care
Our People
Newsroom
Careers
Current Vacancies
Work Experience
Contact
Advanced Search
From
To
Select category
Top Stories
Submit
Sitemap
Pages
Home
About us
Can We Help You?
Notable Cases
Awards & Rankings
Our Expertise
Our People
Newsroom
Careers
Costs Officer
Work Experience
Contact
Regulatory Information
Disclaimer
Privacy
Website Cookies
Sitemap
Posts by category
Category:
Top Stories
IOPC fails Child X, his family, and the black community in Hackney
Jury finds multiple failings and unprofessional conduct by staff contributed to the death of 19 year old Morgan Betchley at Meadowfield Hospital, Sussex
Families of Naomi Hunte and Fiona Holm call on the IOPC to conduct a robust inquiry into Met Police failures
Hertfordshire police admit breaching human rights of journalist arrested at protest
Huge victory for press freedom as Government introduces spying safeguards for journalists
Metropolitan Police settlement amounts soar to £7.6 million
Saria Hart: Jury finds serious failings by staff at HMP Foston Hall contributed to self-inflicted death
Families of Naomi Hunte and Fiona Holm call for a robust inquiry into Met Police failures
Lampard Inquiry: INQUEST describes ‘toxic culture’ and ‘abject failure in candour, data collection and governance’ in Essex mental health NHS Trust
Grenfell Tower Inquiry phase two report finds all 72 deaths were avoidable
Statutory ‘Lampard Inquiry’ into mental health deaths in Essex to open on Monday 9 September
Thames Valley police officer fired for gross misconduct following fatal restraint in hospital
Ministry of Justice pay compensation for false imprisonment
Police pay damages following failures in assault investigation
Children and young people with long Covid dismayed that UK C-19 inquiry refuses to recognise them in Children and Young people’s Module
Donald Burgess family statement in response to officers’ assault charges
Court rules Home Secretary acting irrationally and in breach of children’s rights by failing to provide documents to thousands of migrants with lawful immigration status
Kellie Sutton: Coroner issues Prevention of Future Death Report
Disability Action Northern Ireland criticise ‘heartbreaking irresponsibility’ in pandemic political leadership at Covid Inquiry in Belfast
Jury Finds Neglect led to death of Christine McDonald at HMP Styal
Inquest into the death of Christine McDonald at HMP Styal opens on 29 April 2024
Inquest into death of Molly-Star Kirk at Farndon Unit due to start on 15 April
Court of Appeal quashes our Somali refugee client’s conviction for possessing a false identity document
Metropolitan Police pay £10,000 in damages to a woman arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil
Sentencing Council announces a new mitigating factor “Pregnancy, childbirth and post natal care”
Domestic Homicide victim successfully argues that recovery of all of her Human Rights damages by CICA was unlawful
Elderly mother of Afghan UK Embassy Worker to be reunited with her son in the UK following Judicial Review
Introduction to Actions Against the Police Legal Action Group course
High Court rules Government breached young people’s human rights over sentences
Court of Appeal quashes mandatory minimum term prison sentence of pregnant woman in Landmark Ruling
Supreme Court dismiss government appeal in torture complicity case
Disabled People’s Organisations question government ministers at the COVID-19 Public Inquiry
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.
Jury conclude that Kellie Sutton was unlawfully killed in self inflicted death following domestic abuse
Family of Jermaine Baker – R (W80) v Independent Office for Police Conduct [2023] UKSC 24
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
Three years since the death of Baby Brooke Leigh Powell at HMP Styal on 18 June 2020
Lawyer in the News
Abu Zubaydah v Foreign and Commonwealth Office & others [2022] EWCA Civ 334
High Court declares secret Home Office detention policy unlawful
Settlement achieved in road traffic stop handcuffing case
BBC File on Four radio programme profiles stop and search victim Jamar Powell
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
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
Bhatt Murphy ranked as a leading law firm in eight specialist areas in Chambers & Partners
Coroner concludes that serious failings in psychiatric care contributed to death of transgender woman Sophie Williams
Justice for migrants: give people proof of their rights
Metropolitan police pay damages for unlawful stop and excessive force
Damages for failures in prosecution
Hertfordshire police pay damages for unlawful arrest
Police force settle civil claim following allegations of rape and coercive control made against an Inspector
Bhatt Murphy jointly shortlisted for Rule of Law Award for work on Brook House Public Inquiry
Coroner concludes that domestic abuse victim Lauren Murray died from suicide
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
Carr v G4S [2022] EWHC 3003 (KB)
Police delete unlawful caution
Lesbian asylum seeker successful challenge to detention in Yarl’s Wood
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
Jury blast failings around death in Lancashire police cell
KHB v Chief Constable Lancashire Police [2022]
High Court discharges INEOS protest injunctions
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
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
Tony Murphy appointed Assistant Coroner for North London
Inquest opens into the death of Zoe Adrienne Wilson
Publication of independent investigation into the death of Baby Brooke Leigh Powell at HMP Styal
O and others [2014], Moss and others [2019], Roberts and others [2021], and S [2022]
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
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
Inquest finds delay in delivery of baby Louie Johnston contributed to his death
Elysium’s failings contributed to child’s death
On the Fourth Anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Assassination, Her Family Call for Action
At last: inquiry begins into historical adoption abuses
Louise Powell speaks to Newsnight about the loss of her baby Brooke
Critical failures by various agencies contributed to the death of vulnerable man, Adam Stanmore
Justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia
Failures by Elysium Healthcare contributed to death of 19-year-old Brooke Martin
Covid 19 Public Inquiry: LongCovidSOS call for inclusion of Long Covid in urgent Public Inquiry
Inquest into the tragic death of 19-year-old Brooke Martin
SW v THE UK Application no. 87/18 (European Court of Human Rights)
Hearing begins in the Inquiry into the death of Jermaine Baker
Family failed by NHS Trust to open crisis house
Call for reform of Armed Policing
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
Grenfell Tower bereaved families, survivors and residents shine a light on ‘Landmark act of discrimination’
Inquiry grants anonymity to officers involved in Jermaine Baker shooting
Thompson & Ors v London Borough of Bromley (unreported) Central London County Court, 23 February 2021
Council unlawfully breached vulnerable man’s right to life
Thames Valley Police compensate mother of abducted children
Oil companies cave in on injunction
The High Court has granted a life long worldwide injunction preserving the anonymity of two girl prisoners who committed murder as children.
High Court hearing in torture case
Raju Bhatt appointed as Assessor on Public Inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh
Rough sleeping migrants targeted with enforcement action
Joseph v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2022]
Undercover Policing Inquiry Opening Statement
Court of Appeal judgment on shooting of Jermaine Baker
Fist bump stop and search brothers to sue Met
UK Government seeks to prevent scrutiny of British intelligence agencies’ unlawful conduct in case relating to Rangzieb Ahmed
Administrative Court orders release of vulnerable detainee
State Inquiry into Racist Attempted Murder at HMP Bristol
False charge over killing of PC Harper
Police apologise over a “Fuck Boris” T-shirt
Maternity Action and DZT are refused permission in JR challenging health inequalities caused by NHS Charging Scheme
Challenge to police for a “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
In memory of Mona Mahmoud
Home Secretary concedes judicial review following brutal domestic violence against woman refugee
Home Office admits unlawful detention of man with serious mental illness
Grenfell Tower Inquiry publishes Phase 1 report
State failures to protect immigration detainees
Gay asylum seeker who was subjected to homophobic abuse secures damages for unlawful detention
Bhatt Murphy acts in judicial review challenging health inequalities caused by NHS Charging Scheme
Death of immigration detainee could have been prevented, inquest concludes
Coroner highlights possible increased suicide risk amongst young Eritrean refugees
Daniel Morgan family statement on damages award in murder suspects’ claim against police
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
The Anthony Grainger Inquiry
Speed kills: are police chases out of control?
Jury concludes several missed opportunities contributed to death of Amir Siman-Tov in immigration detention
Privacy International v IPT and Foreign Secretary [2019]
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
Daphne Caruana Galizia deceased
Victory for protest rights across the UK
INEOS and others v Persons Unknown, Mr Joe Boyd, and Mr Joe Corré [2019] EWCA Civ 515
Inquest into the death of Annabella Landsberg
Linah Keza: officers found guilty of gross misconduct in domestic homicide case
LGBT History Month: Jane Ryan recognised for her work for the LGBT+ community
Gross misconduct proceedings start against MPS officers in connection with Linah Keza murder
Inquest jury find that a systemic failure’s by police preceded Donna Williamson domestic homicide
Home Office ordered to pay damages for breach of child’s rights
Settlement in Medical Justice judicial review challenging Home Office definition of torture
The memory of Seni Lewis lives on at the launch of the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards 2019
Grenfell Legal
Donna Williamson inquest to start on Monday 4 Feb
Elderly prisoner sues MOJ over rats in prison
Court overturns Parole Board decision
High Court in Northern Ireland to hear woman’s abortion rights case
Judgment hailed as a ˜masterclass” in pressing for disclosure.
Police failures in domestic homicide case
Shamik Dutta speaks about the police use of spit hoods
Systemic failures contributed to the death of Tyrone Givans at HMP Pentonville
European Court finds UK Government in violation of John Catt’s privacy rights
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
Metropolitan Police apology to civil rights campaigner Stafford Scott
HM Coroner adjourns inquest into death of Branko Zdravkovic following jury verdict
Janet Farrell wins Humanist of the Year award 2018
Finding of gross misconduct against police officer
Misconduct hearing for police officer
Inquest into the death of Natasha Chin
Seni’s Law receives Royal Assent
Fracking and the Right to Protest
Windrush: The unlawful, unfair, discriminatory treatment of people with a legal right to remain in the UK
The hostile environment: The Windrush scandal
Joint Committee On Human Rights inquiry into Immigration Detention
New ‘Seni Lewis Award’ to recognise collaborative work between police and health service
Police Damages for disclosure of family’s safe address
Important Upper Tribunal decision on asylum seeking children’s rights
Home Office admits it unlawfully separated a father from his daughter
Daniel Morgan family statement on Court of Appeal judgment in murder suspects’ claim against police
Challenge to detention of torture survivors
Ministers to debate apology for historical adoption practices on 12 July.
Memorial to Kamil and Bijan
Race hate murder was avoidable
Home Secretary breached child refugee’s rights
Transgender prisoner succeeds in judicial review
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
Inquest into the death of Natasha Chin
Snooper’s Charter ruled unlawful: Liberty wins first battle in challenge to Investigatory Powers Act
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
The Daphne Project
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Police Damages for failure to protect teenage witness
Admission of Liability and Damages secured following data breaches by police officer
Prison Damages for failure to protect under Article 2
Apology and Damages following mistaken police raid on family home
Removal of caution secured for vulnerable teenager
Bhatt Murphy represent Liberty in ‘Snoopers Charter’ legal challenge
Met Officer facing gross misconduct hearing
Home Secretary acted unlawfully
Home Office found to have unlawfully detained man for 13 months
Challenge to the legality of the detention of a Somalian detainee
European Court refers a whole life cases to the Grand Chamber
Home Secretary unlawfully detains genocide survivor
Challenge to Whole Life Tariffs heard by European Court
Home Affairs Select Committee critical of UK Border Agency over immigration detention
Home Secretary concedes detainee’s treatment was inhuman and degrading
Victory for claimants in children and pregnant women use of force challenge
Bhatt Murphy client challenges discriminatory immigration ‘spot checked’
High Court orders release of detainee with severe mental illness
Home Secretary pays £40,000 to immigration detainee
BiD granted permission to intervene before Court of Appeal
Guidance on immigration detention of those with mental illness
Challenge to the detention of pregnant women
Unlawful detention of a pregnant woman
BID intervention before Court of Appeal
Inhuman and degrading treatment at Yarl’s Wood
Parliamentary Inquiry into immigration detention
A £52,000 to stroke victim for unlawful detention
Immigration detainees in prisons
Court orders return of deported Nigerian family
Home Secretary breaches Article 4
Home Office to review detention of pregnant women
Detained fast track unfair for vulnerable woman
High Court finds immigration detention unlawful
Prisoner wins judicial review
Supreme Court to hear John Catt legal challenge
Supreme Court to consider stop and search power
Senior judges split over extremism database
Permission granted in prison law legal aid challenge
Calais children reunited with family in UK
Sister speaks out about the death of Annabella Landsberg at HMP Peterborough
Police Officer Faces Criminal Trial
Megan Phillips joins Bhatt Murphy partnership
Report finds evidence of discriminatory behaviour and institutional racism
Crisis of EU Migrants detained in the UK
Mr Kamil Ahmad deceased
RebLaw UK 2017
Jury finds systematic failings at HMP Bedford contributed to the death of Mark Vagnoni
Seni’s law in House of Commons for MP’s vote
Landmark review on deaths in police custody
Supreme Court hears Northern Ireland abortion rights case
Kamil Ahmad deceased
Met removes caution from victim of domestic abuse
Judicial review success for torture victims
Press photographer complains about police behaviour at Corbyn Rally
Supreme Court grants permission to intervene in NI abortion rights case
Conclusion of gross misconduct hearing on police restraint death of Seni Lewis
Bach report into legal aid
Transgender woman receives settlement and apology from the Prison Service
IPCC investigative failures prompt legal action
Coroner calls for changes to treatment of child refugees
IPCC investigate failures prompt legal action
Police Officers on trial
Anthony Grainger deceased
Successful challenge to a police caution
Article in The Guardian
Judgment exposes Home Office illegality in the detention of torture victims
Major damages achieved in claim for severe psychiatric illness caused by police racism
Bhatt Murphy contributes to Deepcut Review
Duty of Care to Cellmate in Jail Suicide
Bhatt Murphy litigation leads to Home Office policy change
Parliamentary event on Pregnant Women in detention
Amy El-Keria deceased
Met Police seek to avoid liability to Cherry Groce’s family for 1985 shooting
Police officer charged
Jury finds Priory’s gross failings contributed to the death of 14 year Amy El-Keria
Report on restraint of dying immigration detainee
Transgender Europe Legal Network Seminar
Inquest opens into death of 15 year old Christopher Brennan
Simon Creighton on Unreliable Evidence
Gross failings contributed to death
No chages to be brought in the Lewis investigation
Supreme Court intervention for British Humanist Association
Public Inquiry sought into adoption practices
Birth parents to deliver call for public enquiry
Transgender rights in Criminal Justice
Challenge to detention of victims of torture
IPCC refer Jermaine Baker case to CPS
Access to Justice Commission an Interim Report
Shamik Dutta speaks to BBC about police using a spit hood
Justice for Amy
Vulnerable teenager failed by prison system
Justice for Anthony Grainger
Damning inquest findings on police restraint death of Seni Lewis
Transgender Discrimination in Strip Search
Government backs down and allows NI women free NHS abortions
Liberty gets go-ahead to challenge Snooper’s Charter in the High Court
Coroner calls for changes to treatment of child refugees following death of Mohammed Hassan
Supreme Court rejects NI women’s right to NHS abortions
UN Special Rapporteur publishes 2016 UK report
File on 4: Policing the Police
Jury finds serious failings following inquest into death of Caroline Hunt
Concern at propoals to limit the Human Rights Act
CPS to consider charges for assault on pregnant detainee
Bijan Ebrahimi deceased
Caution revoked after spit-hood arrest
Justice for Judah
Apology and settlement secured following armed detention
Police Officer dismissed for accessing police files
Inquest opens into the death of Olaseni Lewis
Daniel Morgan family statement on murder suspects’ claim against police
Bhatt Murphy instructed in The People vs Snoopers charter legal challenge
International Women’s Day – What More Can the Law do for Women?
LGBTQ People In Prison
Government request to delay family reunification of refugee children refused
Anthony Grainger Inquiry
Court of Appeal overturns cuts to prison legal aid
Bhatt Murphy client profiled in Vice article
UN Intervention in Belhaj appeal
Immigration detainees in prison
Coroner must summon jury
Tara Hudson welcomes transgender policy review
PC and PCSO guilty of misconduct in public office
Detention of Zimbabwean national unlawful
Jack Susianta inquest concludes
Shaw Review published
Successful Challenge for Calais Children
Lords Vote to End Immigration Detention of Pregnant Women
Police Apology and Damages for Assault on Student
Justice for Anthony
Inquest Jury Criticises Police Failings
Jane Ryan joins the ’99 Women’ campaign
Apology for pregnant mother assaulted in cell
Justice for Bijan
Immigration detention unfair to detainees lacking capacity
Met Police required to compensate Cherry Groce’s children for 1985 shooting
Edric Kennedy-Macfoy accepts Met Police invitation to help train police officers
European Court to hear John Catt legal challenge
Lesbian asylum seeker successful challenge to detention in Yarl’s Wood
IPCC to investigate arrest of Ik Aihie
Our People
Raju Bhatt
Simon Creighton
Mark Scott
Shamik Dutta
Janet Farrell
Carolynn Gallwey
Charlotte Haworth Hird
Sophie Naftalin
Michael Oswald
Megan Phillips
Jane Ryan
Hamish Arnott
Christina Bodenes
Jessie Brennan
Michela Carini
Molly Cox
Colin Gregory
Joanna Khan
Catriona McGregor
Niamh McLoughlin
Amy Ooi
Eva Roszykiewicz
Erica San
Catherine Shannon
Caleb Simpson
Tori Sicher
Renata Sweeney
Abisola Bishi
Rachel Cope-Thompson
Lauren Frederick
Leila Mani Lundie
Larry Lock
Naintara Rana
Mavi Salvatori
Anna Thomson
Our Expertise
Public Law
Police misconduct / Actions against the Police
Prisoner's Rights
Immigration detention and migrant rights
Inquests
European Court of Human Rights
Women’s Rights
Public Inquiries
Health and Social Care
Notable Cases
Caleb's Notable cases
Erica's Notable cases
Colin Gregory's Notable Cases
Tori Sicher's Notable Cases
Police cases
Prison Law cases
Immigration Detention and Migrant Rights cases
Immigration Detention Cases
Inquest cases
Public Law cases
European Court of Human Rights cases
Hamish Arnott's Notable Cases
Simon Creighton's Notable Cases
Eva Roszykiewicz Notable Cases
Chanel Dolcy Notable Cases
Catherine Shannon Notable Cases
Shamik Dutta's Notable Cases
Carolynn Gallwey's Notable Cases
Mark Scott's Notable Cases
Janet Farrell's Notable Cases
Chanel Dolcy's Notable Cases
Sophie Naftalin's Notable Cases
Michela Carini's Notable cases
Michael Oswald's Notable Cases
Jane Ryan's Notable Cases
Raju Bhatt's notable cases
Megan Phillips' notable cases
Our People Categories
Consultant
Paralegal
Partner
Solicitor
Trainee Solicitor
Notable Cases Categories
Default Group