Detainee and prisoner rights

We act for prisoners, those detained under the Mental Health Act and  foreign nationals held in detention centres who are receiving inadequate treatment and care, who are unlawfully detained, whose human rights are being breached or who are being unlawfully discriminated against on the grounds of disability.

Examples of recent successes include:

• Acting for a disabled prisoner in a challenge of a prison’s failure to provide him with a motorised wheelchair and allocate him to a disabled cell;
• Acting for a disabled prisoner in a challenge of the Prison Service’s refusal to transfer him to a prison closer to the family home so allowing his family to visit;
• Acting for a prisoner in a challenge of a prison’s refusal to refer him for treatment of his gender dysphoria condition;
• Obtaining compensation for a prisoner’s family for failing to identify or treat a prisoner’s cancer, from which he died;
• Obtaining compensation for a prisoner who suffered eye injuries following a fall, while sedated, from his bunk bed;
• Obtaining compensation for an asylum seeker, subsequently granted permission to remain in the UK, who remained unlawfully detained following the completion of his prison sentence
• Acting for minors whose age is disputed by the Home Office and who were detained unlawfully, securing release from detention and obtaining damages
• Acting for foreign national prisoners held in long terms immigration detention following completion of their sentences pending deportation and securing their release.

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