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The British Indian Ocean Territories (BIOT) Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that 64 Tamil individuals, including 16 children, were unlawfully detained on the island of Diego Garcia for more than three years.

An employment tribunal judge called out Addison Lee’s “unreasonable conduct” in relation to previously falsifying documents as he ruled that the company should pay drivers thousands in legal costs.

The inquest into the death of 22-year-old William Giles, who died in hospital on 23 August 2023 has found that there were missed opportunities in the care he received at hospital in the period leading up to his death.  

As announced yesterday (4 December 2025), one of the Labour government’s manifesto pledges to reduce the qualifying period for employees to bring unfair dismissal claims will be (as of the time of this blog) coming into force in January 2027. This will have far and wide-reaching changes to the employment sector in the UK.  

Leigh Day partner Sarah Moore, who leads a team investigating PFAS pollution in the UK, reflects on the recent Panorama episode about the substances known as ‘forever chemicals’.

In an age of deepfakes, AI bots, and algorithmic manipulation, the question of how governments safeguard democratic integrity against foreign interference is now central to the survival of free and fair elections

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