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Legal challenge to DWP’s system of corresponding with blind benefits claimants

A blind self-employed worker is challenging the Department of Work and Pensions over its continuing failure to communicate with him in a format that he can access. Dr Yusuf Ali Osman has applied for judicial review of Secretary of State, Therese Coffey’s, means of communicating...

Disabled swimmer’s disappointment at court ruling over City of London charges for Hampstead Ponds

Disabled swimmer Christina Efthimiou has voiced her disappointment at a High Court judgment which found that the charging regime at Hampstead Ponds did not discriminate against her and that, even if it did, the discrimination could be justified. Christina had applied for judicial review of...

Second legal challenge to Immigration Exemption in Data Protection Act 2018

Campaigners have been granted permission to proceed to a full hearing by the High Court in relation to a second legal challenge of the Immigration Exemption. The “immigration exemption”, in the Data Protection Act 2018, was ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal in June...

Inquest concludes systemic failings and neglect contributed to the death of Daniel Joe Mattin, aged 19

The jury at the inquest into the death of 19-year-old Daniel Joe Mattin, of Guildford, has concluded that systemic failings caused or more than minimally contributed to his death. It also found that his death had been contributed to by neglect, a gross failure...

Mothers of teenagers who died after failures in care demand action from Nadim Zahawi and Sajid Javid

The mothers of two teenage boys who died following failures in care by local authorities and health services have called for urgent action by Education Secretary Nadim Zahawi and Health Secretary Sajid Javid to ensure the disabilities of children like them are recognised and...

Bristol City Council accepts defeat after local conservation charity’s legal challenge over homes plan

Residents have forced Bristol City Council to back down over its plans for 62 homes on the site of the old Bristol Zoo car park. The Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society (CHIS) fought a planning application by the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological...