Prisoners of war
Leigh Day & Co solicitors are experts in claims against international governments. The firm has have brought cases against the
German and
Japanese governments for their
mistreatment of prisoners of war.News
The chairman of the Japanese Labour Camp Survivors' Association, Arthur Titherington, has died
In 1999, the Federation of Poles in Great Britain asked Leigh Day & Co. to work with them to bring a claim against the German Government on behalf of former slave labourers of the Nazi’s.
In December 1941, the Japanese overran most of the far-east and in doing so took tens of thousands of allied troops and civilians into captivity. Three years of living hell ensued.