Howells LLP
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Howells is a leading public law firm building on its niche strengths in all aspects of civil liberties including actions against the police, prisoner’s rights, deaths in custody, miscarriages of justice, mental health, immigration, inquests and criminal law challenges.
The department deals with varied public law challenges particularly focusing on human rights aspects and has been active in numerous test cases up to ECHR and House of Lords level including 2 successful challenges to the Inquest system, a challenge to the Police Complaints system, a challenge to the prison discipline system and numerous successful immigration judicial reviews. Head of Department, Peter Mahy was recently successful in a landmark case before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights who found that the UK’s policy of retaining DNA of suspects of the unconvicted population was a breach of article 8. The firm has been successful in several other cases in the ECHR.
