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Recent news

• Government delays response to families deprived of visits to dementia relatives in care homes

  23 September 2020

  Dementia support campaigners have reacted with fury as Government lawyers delayed their response to a call to tackle the issue of visiting relatives in care homes.

• Declassified UK receives apology from Ministry of Defence after ‘blacklisting’ incident

  22 September 2020

  An investigative journalism group has received an apology from the Ministry of Defence after it appeared to have been blacklisted in response to a question about the UK and Yemen.

• Mother echoes call for allergy tsar after coroner's report into death of her daughter

  21 September 2020

  A mother has joined in a call for an ‘allergy tsar’ as she marks the anniversary of her daughter’s death after a major reaction to eating food that contained nuts.

• Former Dyson Engineer succeeds in harassment and discrimination claim 

  20 September 2020

  A former engineer of Dyson Technology Ltd has succeeded in her claims for harassment and discrimination related to religion while working at Dyson Technology Ltd.  She also succeeded in her claim of constructive unfair dismissal against Dyson Technology Ltd.

• Legal case challenges cut-off date for ex-gratia payments to infected blood victims

  17 September 2020

  A woman whose life has been ruined by Hepatitis C after she was given infected blood in the course of treatment for cancer has issued a legal case to challenge her ineligibility for a government payment.

• Mercedes agrees 1.5 billion dollar settlement in US

  15 September 2020

  Mercedes parent company Daimler AG has agreed a 1.5 billion USD settlement with United States authorities over the cheat device emissions scandal which has unfolded across the Atlantic.