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Environmental campaigner Chris Packham CBE says the case for HS2 should be revisited despite today’s disappointing Court of Appeal ruling.
31 July 2020
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A former football coach who is already serving a 30-year prison sentence for child abuse has admitted the sexual abuse of two more complainants, one of whom is represented by Leigh Day lawyers.
31 July 2020
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A judgment given by the High Court today found that the Lord Chancellor was under no legal obligation to carry out a review of the impact of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 reforms despite the clear commitments given by the government to do so.
31 July 2020
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A man has settled his medical negligence claim for more than double the hospital’s original offer.
30 July 2020
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A group of 218 current and former Kenyan tea workers have filed a formal complaint against Unilever today for its failure to respect international human rights standards following widespread violence at the multinational’s largest tea plantation.
30 July 2020
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A woman whose follow-up care for bowel surgery left her with irreversible kidney damage has been awarded a settlement which will allow her to continue to pursue her claim at a later date.
27 July 2020
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A maternity safety inquiry has been launched by the Parliamentary Health and Social Care Committee.
24 July 2020
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Groups representing families affected by the use in pregnancy of the epilepsy drug, Sodium Valproate, are determined to press on to see the recommendations of the Cumberlege Review fulfilled as soon as possible.
23 July 2020
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The Department of Work and Pensions has outlined how its safeguarding procedures will work following the deaths by suicides of claimants whose benefits had been stopped.
22 July 2020
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A campaigner has won permission for judicial review of Surrey County Council’s approval for oil wells at Horse Hill, Surrey.
21 July 2020
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A child who suffered near-total deprivation of oxygen at his birth will receive more than £30 million in compensation to help provide lifelong care.
20 July 2020
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A man who was exposed to asbestos while working as a process worker for Imperial Chemical Industries at their plant in Clitheroe, Lancashire, in the 1960s and early 1970s, received compensation following his diagnosis with the asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma.
16 July 2020
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Leigh Day lawyers, jointly with the Law Society of England & Wales, have provided an expert briefing to the Colombian judiciary in a case governing the land rights of indigenous people.
16 July 2020
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Following the death of Errol Graham the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will have to answer questions in court about the legality of its safeguarding policies and why it has not reviewed and revised those policies as it promised to do at his inquest.
16 July 2020
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More than 300 severely disabled people have issued a claim in the High Court for lost income under the universal credit system.
15 July 2020
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A survivor of childhood abuse at an Islington children’s home has won her claim against Islington Council and will receive compensation.
15 July 2020
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The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, has said that he will publish two documents to ensure patients and families understand how Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) decisions are made in light of the current coronavirus pandemic.
14 July 2020
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The long running equal pay battle for supermarket workers has reached a landmark stage this week.
13 July 2020
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A widow whose husband was killed while dismantling a large vessel in a shipbreaking yard on the beaches of Bangladesh can press ahead with her claim against the UK-based shipping company involved in the vessel’s sale.
13 July 2020
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A young woman who has Down syndrome has been granted permission for Judicial Review of Norfolk County Council’s policy of charging people for essential care and support.
13 July 2020
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Campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed has issued legal proceedings against the Chancellor and in doing so will argue that the implementation of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) discriminates against women.
10 July 2020
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MPs have called for the restoration of democratic rights of 250 MPs who are shielding from the COVID-19 pandemic and claim they have been unlawfully blocked from Parliamentary debate.
10 July 2020
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Following the crane collapse on houses and a block of flats in Bow, London, which resulted in the tragic death of a women and injuries to four other people, the lawyer who represented victims of the Battersea crane collapse in 2006, which killed two people, has said that incidents such as these should be considered ‘never-events’.
9 July 2020
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The Sikh Federation (UK) has been granted permission by Mr Justice Lewis for a full Judicial Review hearing in the High Court, expected to take place in October 2020.
9 July 2020
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Wildlife campaign group Wild Justice has launched a legal case challenging Natural England’s failure to ensure that badgers are being killed humanely as part of the annual cull to help prevent the spread of bovine TB.
9 July 2020
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Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is considering what legal options are available after the Government announced that it will resume the granting of new licences for arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the rest of the coalition that is bombing Yemen.
8 July 2020
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Groups representing families affected by the use in pregnancy of the epilepsy drug Sodium Valproate have delivered their response to the Cumberlege Review, published July 8.
8 July 2020
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An appeal has been launched in the EU’s highest court to enable a legal challenge to biomass rules in the EU Directive on Renewable Energy, known as RED II to be heard.
7 July 2020
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High Court to hear the Asbestos Victims Support Groups’ Forum UK challenge to the Lord Chancellor’s Review of Part 2 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO)
2 July 2020
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Lawyer Ross Whalley who is acting for a number of bereaved families over the lack of PPE and other workplace protections provided by employers during the COVID outbreak has welcomed the commitment by the Government to investigate claims that Leicester garment factories ordered sick employees to carry on working as normal despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
2 July 2020
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Leigh Day client Tommy Greene writes about his legal challenge to the government over its failure to publish the contents of the Cygnus Exercise report.
1 July 2020