2019 News

An urgent legal challenge aimed at forcing the release of a report into potential Russian interference in British politics has been launched by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Solicitors specialising in claims against the police and judicial review have welcomed the decision by the High Court in Jones & Ors v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2019] EWHC 2957 (Admin) to quash an order imposing a condition on the Extinction Rebellion protesters that they must cease their protests within London.

The Supreme Court has today ruled in favour of a man, known as RR, who brought a legal case regarding whether social security tribunals and local authorities have the power to provide effective remedy to benefits claimants where the application of the bedroom tax breaches their rights under the Human Rights Act.

An Inquest into the death of 74-year-old Peter Allingham concluded that he died due to a road traffic collision. His sister said after the Inquest that she hopes that plans for greater safety measures for pedestrians in Peckham will be implemented quickly.

A resident of Redhill in Surrey has issued a legal challenge against Surrey County Council's decision to grant planning permission to allow Horse Hill Developments Ltd to retain and extend a site at Horse Hill, near Gatwick, with an increase in oil production by the drilling of four new wells on Green Belt land.

Clinical negligence lawyer and former radiographer, Suzanne White, has called for the government to do more to increase the number of radiologists and radiographers to better protect patients following failings at a teaching hospital led to three patients dying and eight coming to severe harm.

​Tina Patel from Leigh Day's consumer law and product safety team has joined calls to establish whether or not there is a link between two child fatalities following two separate incidents involving falls from high-rise windows.

A settlement has been agreed for a woman who received no treatment for her psychotic depression, which led her to jump from a window at home and suffer fractures to her foot and spine and damage to her spinal cord.

The travel solicitor who is representing two people who were injured after a coach crashed in northern France has called for swift support to be put in place for the victims.

A leading travel lawyer has called for a thorough investigation by French police after a bus travelling from Paris to London crashed in northern France leaving 29 people injured, including 10 British citizens.

A prominent satirist and human rights activist has issued a legal claim in the UK High Court against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia alleging that he was targeted with spyware known as Pegasus, acquired from the NSO Group.

The family of Donald Collett, who died in the Croydon tram crash, have expressed dismay at yesterday's CPS decision that no criminal charges will be bought against the driver or Transport for London (TfL) or the operator, Tram Operations Ltd.