July 2011

• Default retirement age
  The abolition of the default retirement age 28 July 2011
• Leigh Day client secures right to extended day curriculum at residential special school
  Specialist education lawyer Alison Millar successfully challenges contents of SEN statement 27 July 2011
• Paying younger employees less is ongoing age discrimination
  Leigh Day is representing a group of hospital workers 27 July 2011
• Important Court of Appeal judgment for judicial review costs
  Judgment marks fundamental shift in claimants' ability to recover legal costs 26 July 2011
• Panorama reports on poor maternity care in London
  Leigh Day clients feature in tonight’s programme, One born every 40 seconds 25 July 2011
• Ministry of Defence to compensate family of drowned Iraqi teenager
  £100,000 payout to family of Saeed Shabram who drowned in Shatt Al-Arab river near Basra 22 July 2011
• Historic judgment as UK Government loses court battle on Kenyan colonial torture
  High Court rejects Government's attempt to strike out Kenyan torture claims 21 July 2011
• Peruvian torture claimants compensated by UK mining company
  Monterrico Metals PLC settles Peruvian cases without admission of liability 20 July 2011
• Explosion at Lincolnshire industrial estate
  Five men were killed in an explosion in Boston, Lincolnshire 20 July 2011
• Demandantes peruanos por torturas indemnizados por Monterrico
  Monterrico Metal plc alcanza un acuerdo en el caso del Perú sin admisión de responsibilidad 20 July 2011
• High Court judgment due in Mau Mau torture claims
  Mau Mau torture claims judgment due on 21st July 2011 at 10am 19 July 2011
• Seriously injured pedestrian receives compensation
  Client collecting grandson from school was hit by car which mounted pavement 18 July 2011
• One World Action launches new campaign
  One World Action launches new 'One Hundred Women' campaign 18 July 2011
• Supreme Court upholds ban on use of secret evidence in civil trials
  Landmark case that English courts do not have the power to order 'closed material'. 16 July 2011
• Leigh Day partner invited to welcome Lord Mayor of London on visit to court
  Penny Knight gives welcoming address to Lord Mayor of London. 14 July 2011
• Leigh Day team welcomes custodial sentence for fatal crash lorry driver
  Lorry driver jailed for six months 14 July 2011
• More allegations of abuse at Castlebeck care home
  More staff suspended from a Castlebeck care home. 13 July 2011
• Parents' legal action saves Cathnor Park Children's Centre from drastic cuts
  Cathnor Park Children’s Centre services were under threat from Hammersmith & Fulham Council 8 July 2011
• ‘Justice’ Bill cuts off justice to worldwide victims of UK corporate greed
  European & African NGOs cry foul over UK Govt plans to abolish success fees 7 July 2011
• House of Commons debate about human rights concerns in Legal Aid Bill
  UK-based multinational could escape claims under proposed legislation 7 July 2011
• Beko appliances possible cause of tower block fire
  Beko frost-free freezer may have caused tower block fire. 7 July 2011
• Leigh Day partner speaks at Cameroon workshop
  Partner Shubhaa Srinivasan speaks on redress against transnational corporate wrongdoing 7 July 2011
• Successful settlement for Polish client with near fatal neurological illness
  Two London hospitals fail to diagnose and treat a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis 6 July 2011
• Odszkodowanie za wypadek przy pracy dla stolarza z Polski
  Stolarz, w wyniku używania niesprawnej piły, doznał poważnego uszczerbku na zdrowiu uniemożliwiającego mu powrót do pracy 4 July 2011
• Compensation for farmhand amputation after forklift accident
  Partial loss of finger settlement of £70,000 4 July 2011