Latest grants from Strategic Legal Fund

Bhatt Murphy

SLF funding was awarded to Bhatt Murphy for pre-litigation research to explore a legal challenge against the Secretary of State for the Home Department / Home Office arising from the lack of Article 4 ECHR compliant systems within Immigration Removal Centres to identify potential victims of trafficking and modern slavery.

Bhatt Murphy is a law firm specialising in the protection of civil liberties. Their immigration detention and migrant rights team focuses on obtaining redress for migrants who are wrongly detained or unlawfully affected by Home Office practices.

Deighton Pierce Glynn

SLF funding was awarded to Deighton Pierce Glynn for pre-litigation research and development of a judicial review on behalf of an NGO to challenge the continued use of Napier Barracks by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, including the decision to conduct substantive interviews on site.

DPG is a firm of solicitors specialising in representing claimants in civil rights, judicial review and international human rights law. The firm is recognised for its expertise in the field of public law and in particular migrants' socio-economic rights.