2022 News

A family has received a settlement and an admission of liability from an NHS Trust following an unnecessary invasive procedure, which resulted in undiagnosed internal bleeding and death.

Ahead of Child Safety Week 2022, Jill Paterson, a partner specialising in product safety, highlights some recent product recalls that parents and carers may not be aware of.

As the Islington Borough Council rolls out its Support Payment Scheme for survivors of abuse in the council’s children’s homes, specialist abuse lawyers welcome the introduction of financial support but are reminding survivors that the scheme does not prevent them making a separate legal claim.  

A coroner has written to Health Secretary Sajid Javid to ask him to take action to address a national shortage of haematologists following the death of 14-year-old Katie Wilkins.

Tesco is recalling its Tesco Frozen All Butter Croissants six pack due a packaging error as they may also contain Tesco Frozen Almond Croissants, posing a risk to consumers with nut allergies.

The inquest into the death of 14-year-old Katie Wilkins, from Warrington, has ruled that neglect by Warrington General Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital contributed to her death. Assistant Coroner Katy Ainge has also issued a Prevention of Future Deaths report addressed to the Secretary of State for Health expressing her concerns about the national lack of funding for paediatric haematology specialists.

The Volkswagen Group and the claimants have today reached an out of court settlement in the Volkswagen NOx Emissions Group Litigation.

Further to our earlier press release on the Volkswagen emissions settlement announced today, see further comments below from Leigh Day partners Boz Michalowska-Howells and Shazia Yamin who represent thousands of clients and have worked on the case since September 2015, when news of this scandal first broke.

Freedom from Torture has launched an urgent challenge to the government’s decision to send asylum seekers to Rwanda with a second legal letter from Leigh Day human rights lawyers.

Afghan journalists living in terror of the Taliban because of their former work with the British media have filed an application for judicial review after waiting months without their applications to relocate to the UK being processed.

The safety of hundreds of women and birthing people from Black and Brown and mixed ethnicity backgrounds is being put at risk due to systemic racism within UK maternity care, a year-long inquiry by Birthrights, the UK charity for human rights in pregnancy and childbirth, has found.

The family of 18-year-old Zoe Lyalle from Reading have expressed their disappointment following her inquest which concluded there were no failings in the care she received by her local mental health team and her specialist school. The inquest into Zoe’s death, held at Berkshire Coroner’s Court reached a conclusion of suicide on Thursday 19 May 2022.