2022 News

The High Court in London will hear a preliminary issues trial between 11 and 15 July 2022 regarding the case brought by 171 individuals, mainly small-scale farmers and their families (known as campesinos), against Amerisur Resources Limited. Amerisur is owned by Geopark, a large oil and gas company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.  

A six-figure settlement has been secured following the death of a 35-year-old mother of two, after Croydon University Hospital failed to diagnose her appendicitis.

A prosecutor who raised concerns of serious corruption while working for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in Kosovo has agreed a settlement of over £400,000 following her dismissal in late 2014. The settlement to the claims against the FCDO was made with no admission of liability.

Law firm Leigh Day has opened an office in Leeds city centre to be closer to its Yorkshire clients.

A group of journalists who applied for urgent relocation to the UK under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) when the Taliban seized Kabul and the British army joined in the US airlift last August have been granted permission to present their case to a High Court judge.

Organisations representing people needing care and support have welcomed the Prime Minister’s acceptance of changes to the Terms of Reference for the public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic to look at the effect on the human rights of vulnerable people within the health and social care system, including those in care homes, hospitals, mental health units and rehabilitation facilities.

A blind self-employed worker is challenging the Department of Work and Pensions over its continuing failure to communicate with him in a format that he can access.

The family of welder David John O’Keefe, who worked at the Pollards factory in Highbury, is appealing for information from anyone who worked at the factory during the 1960s to 1980s.

Our client, Jay, has received £60,000 and an apology from the local authority after settling a civil claim for the abuse he experienced as a child in care of Nottinghamshire County Council.

Disabled swimmer Christina Efthimiou has voiced her disappointment at a High Court judgment which found that the charging regime at Hampstead Ponds did not discriminate against her and that, even if it did, the discrimination could be justified.

Product safety lawyer Jill Paterson has welcomed an urgent safety warning by the London Fire Brigade (LFB) following an investigation into a fire in a high-rise block of flats in Shepherd’s Bush which concluded that it was caused by the failure of an electric bicycle (e-bike) lithium-ion battery.

Campaigners have been granted permission to proceed to a full hearing by the High Court in relation to a second legal challenge of the Immigration Exemption.