Prisons

We regularly act for prisoners in claims of discrimination including disability, race, religion, sex, age, gender reassignment and sexual orientation. Those claims might include where:

• There has been a delay or a failure to meet a prisoner’s mobility or personal care needs;
• There has been a decision to operate a policy or practice which treats a prisoner unfairly because of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation; and
• There has been a failure to take a prisoner’s age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation into account when putting a policy or practice into force.

We act in claims of clinical negligence, personal injury and breach of human rights on behalf of prisoners who have suffered injury whilst in prison or whilst in hospital. Examples of such claims include where:

• There has been a decision to refuse a prisoner access to treatment;
• There has been a delay or a failure in a prisoner being diagnosed with an illness or receiving treatment for that illness; and
• There have been mistakes when providing a prisoner with treatment for an illness.

We also represent bereaved families at all stages of Coroner’s Inquest proceedings arising out of deaths in prison, including:

• Deaths arising from a failure to provide adequate healthcare to a prisoner;
• Deaths arising from suicide, where there has been a failure to protect the prisoner from suicide or self-harm; and
• Deaths arising from a failure to protect a prisoner from violence within a prison.