2022 Blogs
Leigh Day blogs 2022
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COP27 and beyond: Financing Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Katharina Theil, solicitor and trainee Sarah Gibbons, in the international team, discuss the calls to provide financial assistance to address loss and damage, a key agenda item in the UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt, as well as other legal routes in the fight for climate justice.
Is the freeze to the Local Housing Allowance since April 2020 unlawful?
Lucy Cadd considers whether the stark choices facing tenants, and people who want to be tenants, mean that the effective cut in housing benefit while rents have soared is unlawful.
“Treated with Contempt” - the independent report fans had been waiting for
Specialist personal injury lawyers Clare Campbell and Jill Paterson discuss the report of the independent panel led by Professor Phil Scraton
“Justice delayed is justice denied”: Inquests and the impact of systemic delays
Sophie Wells and Jess Smith, who work in the inquest team in our human rights department, discuss the impact of systemic delays to inquests.
International Day of Rural Women: the importance of restorative justice
For the International Day of Rural Women, Rebecca Swan, Ana Rizelo and Alex Wessely consider the vital role Leigh Day legal cases have played in improving life for rural women.
Malsis School convictions: how was abuse able to go on for so long?
Dino Nocivelli says answers are needed about abuse at the now-closed private preparatory school Malsis in North Yorkshire.
More hope for children in failure-to-remove claims
Anna Moore, senior associate solicitor and Samantha Freeze, trainee solicitor explain why recent cases offer hope to children who have been unable to pursue “failure-to-remove” claims against local authorities.
Group Litigation Orders in consumer group litigation: the renewed case for reform
Partner Shazia Yamin, who led on the first Volkswagen emissions group action, and solicitor Claire Powell, discuss the need for reform in consumer group litigation and consider how different procedural mechanisms in other jurisdictions operate.
Review of the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
Alison Millar, head of Leigh Day Abuse Team, reflects on the the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)
Consumer representative actions: Is the EU’s new system better?
Oliver Holland and Walker Syachalinga explain the differences between the European Union’s new system for bringing representative legal action and the system that still applies in England and Wales.
Kirkup Report into East Kent Maternity Services is a sad reflection of unlearned lessons in hospitals across England
Associate Solicitor Stephen Clarkson and trainee solicitor Meghana Hegdekar discuss the report by Dr Bill Kirkup into maternity services at East Kent Hospitals, the criticisms highlighted and what lessons can be learned going forward.
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse – the journey to the inquiry’s final report and what it might contain
On Thursday the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse releases its final report, seven years after the inquiry was established. Andrew Lord looks back at the task which was put before the inquiry panel all those years ago and speculates on what we might see later this week.