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This specialist civil rights and judicial review solicitors has offices in London and Bristol. It was named legal aid law firm of the year at the 2023 Legal Aid Lawyers of the Year awards.
Deighton Pierce Glynn acted for asylum seekers who won a legal challenge to the government’s decision to house them at a former army barracks in Folkestone, Kent. The High Court ruled that the Napier Barracks provided inadequate accommodation for asylum seekers and that the home secretary’s process for selecting people to stay there was flawed and unlawful.
The firm continues to act for asylum seekers placed in accommodation that critics claim is inadequate and inappropriate, including some of those whom the Home Office wants to house on the Bibby Stockholm barge, which had to be evacuated after the discovery of deadly legionella bacteria, and at RAF Weathersfield, where asylum seekers have gone on hunger strike in protest at the “prison-like” conditions.
It acted for a trafficked domestic worker in a third successful judicial review over a six-year period against the Crown Prosecution Service for failing to prosecute her trafficker, and successfully challenged the Home Office in a case regarding the withholding of essential subsistence payments to asylum-seeking mothers with infant children.
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★ Commended for administrative & public law; human rights
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