July 2020
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William Broadbent from Leigh Day's cycling team reminisces on his discovery of cycling through the National Cycle Network and one 'iconic' route in particular. As the team's challenge
to collectively ride throughout the month of July in support of cycle infrastructure comes to a close, William discusses how these routes are a gateway to discover the world.
31 July 2020
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Kavita Modi discusses what can be done in the UK to prevent human trafficking and forced labour
30 July 2020
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Jill Paterson and Christy Allen highlight the deadly dangers of button batteries, the advocacy efforts being made to reduce the numbers of accidents involving them, and what families can do this week to make their homes safer without them
27 July 2020
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Liberty Bridge and Maya Ogundipe from the
international department discuss the ECOWAS Court’s judgment which found Togo violated Freedom of Expression by ‘shutting down’ the internet during 2017 protests.
24 July 2020
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Clare Campbell and Alice Forster offer their Top 10 Tips to help you stay safe while travelling abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic.
23 July 2020
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Boz Michaelowska-Howells and Jessica Derwent discuss how consumer law can be a force for good when it comes to protecting the environment.
22 July 2020
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Robin Selley from our cycling team laments the once great cycling infrastructure of Stevenage. How this was borne from post-war optimism but withered through complacency by modern-day town planners. Robin argues how we'd all be better off if we remembered how cycling infrastructure was once the future in our towns and cities.
21 July 2020
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Leigh Day Clinical Negligence Partner Suzanne White explains why the calls for a public inquiry into poor maternity care are justified and why she agrees that one is needed.
21 July 2020
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International solicitor,
Rebekah Read, discusses forced labour in Malaysian factories manufacturing PPE gloves and why the UK should follow the US in placing a detention order on imports on subsidiaries of Top Glove to protect the NHS supply chain.
17 July 2020
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Zahra Nanji considers the latest alert about a medical device in light of concerns about the MHRA highlighted by the Cumberlege Review
14 July 2020
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Healthcare solicitor Firdous Ibrahim discusses why BAME pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and what measures should be put in place to protect them
14 July 2020
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Catriona Rubens discusses how The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse has missed the opportunity to investigate child sexual abuse in sport.
14 July 2020
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Ryan Bradshaw and Claire Powell discuss returning to work and the health and safety obligations of employers in the second of their three-part series on COVID-19 and employment rights.
14 July 2020
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Solicitor in the international department, Richard Thimbleby, discusses President Bolsonaro of Brazil and what hopes there are of stopping his environmental destruction.
10 July 2020
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Alison Millar, head of the abuse team at Leigh Day, discusses the role racial injustice and institutional racism may have played in the incidence of abuse amongst black children in Lambeth Council children's homes as the IICSA hears evidence of past abuse in care, where black children made up a disproportionate percentage.
3 July 2020
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On Action Mesothelioma Day 2020, asbestos lawyer Claire Spearpoint discusses how this year the current pandemic will not only change the way people will come together to remember those affected, but also how Coronavirus takes such a toll on those with the disease and how organisations are facing up to this challenge.
3 July 2020
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Maria Panteli considers what might lie ahead for parents of fetal valproate syndrome children as the Cumberlege Review is due to publish its long awaited report next week.
2 July 2020