This is an exciting opportunity to join the DPG Team.
The role will be supporting two solicitors in our Actions Against the Police team with running their caseload.
Our work includes actions against the police/Home Office/MOJ, discrimination, inquests, and other civil litigation include public law remedies against the state. Our clients’ complaints are about the police, prison service and other parts of the criminal justice system. Their complaints include discrimination, bereavement, assaults, unlawful detention and prosecution, and breaches of the Human Rights Act as well as failures to investigate and prosecute crime. We specialise in private and public law actions against the police, Home Office, CPS, and IOPC; representation at inquests, prosecutions and inquiries; and alternative forms of dispute resolution.
Most of our clients come to us by referral. Clients are referred by, for example, community groups and activists, journalists, advice agencies and other lawyers, former clients and the CLS. Our clients are mainly publicly funded.