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Bhatt Murphy continues to work on groundbreaking and high-profile cases arising from breaches of civil liberties both nationally and internationally.
It secured an apology, admission of liability and a £2 million settlement from the Metropolitan Police for its failure to bring to justice those responsible for the murder of Daniel Morgan, 36 years after his murder. Morgan, 37, was found with an axe in his head in the car park of a pub in Sydenham, southeast London, in 1987. His family believes that he was about to expose police corruption when he was killed.
Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologised and admitted liability, accepting that the case had been “marred by a cycle of corruption, professional incompetence and defensiveness that has repeated itself over and over again”.
The firm also represented the family of Kellie Sutton at the inquest into her death, securing an unprecedented outcome that, while she took her own life, she was unlawfully killed after domestic abuse.
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And it represented Brighton and Hove city council in a successful judicial review challenging the systematic and routine placement of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels.
★ Commended for administrative & public law; human rights
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