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Welcome to Leigh Day's latest update section where you can find our latest press releases as well as information about our current cases and client stories. If you require an interview with one of our lawyers or would like more information on a story please contact our press team at pressoffice@leighday.co.uk or on 0161 393 3547.
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Latest News
Every little helps: how equal value claims are addressing unequal pay in the workplace
Earlier today employment partner Emma Satyamurti was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour discussing the importance of pay and benefits in achieving equality. Here, she looks at the role Leigh Day’s Equal Pay Now campaign is playing in addressing the balance.
Settlement agreed with Petra Diamonds Ltd for alleged victims of sexual abuse
A settlement has been reached on behalf of 25 claimants, represented by law firm Leigh Day, who alleged that they suffered serious human rights abuses, including sexual abuse, by security personnel at the Williamson Diamonds Mine in Tanzania.
Cameron Mitchell launches court challenge to loss of Personal Independence Benefit payments after 28 days in hospital
A severely disabled young man is applying for judicial review of a rule which halted payment of his welfare benefit after he had been in hospital for more than four weeks.
Latest Blogs
Afghan women and girls losing decades of hard-fought progress
In the month of the United Nations International Day of the Girl Child, Claire Powell looks at the prospects for women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s return to power.
The impact of period poverty in the UK and around the world
A week on from International Day of the Girl Child Liberty Bridge and Sami Freeze from the international department look to how lack of access to sanitary products is affecting access to education for girls around the globe
Overworked and underpaid: what its really like to deliver for Amazon
Amazon proudly calls the drivers distributing their parcels ‘delivery heroes’, but is the trillion-dollar company treating them accordingly? Here, Bill Lightfoot*, explains what its really like to deliver for Amazon.
Meet the press office team
Caroline Ivison
Caroline is our head of media relations
Maxine Wolstenholme
Maxine works across all Leigh Day departments as a media relations manager
Anna Mauremootoo
Anna is an experienced PR professional and is focused upon the many group claims the firm is taking in equal pay