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A former Trafford Council welfare rights advisor who helped expose the council's unlawful council tax reduction scheme is bringing an Employment Tribunal claim alleging he was unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing. 

Leigh Day is representing 10 clients bringing civil legal action against Flourish Learning Trust, which ran London's Whitefield School, and the London Borough of Waltham Forest, following the use of locked and padded isolation rooms for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

Leigh Day partner Sean Humber has called on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to take full legal responsibility for the "excruciating failure" of a data breach that affected almost 19,000 Afghans.

For International Workers’ Memorial Day 28 April 2026, Partner Joanne Candlish reflects on more than 30 years of bringing successful legal claims against industrial titans whose workers suffered lethal asbestos exposure.

As announced yesterday (4 December 2025), one of the Labour government’s manifesto pledges to reduce the qualifying period for employees to bring unfair dismissal claims will be (as of the time of this blog) coming into force in January 2027. This will have far and wide-reaching changes to the employment sector in the UK.  

Leigh Day partner Sarah Moore, who leads a team investigating PFAS pollution in the UK, reflects on the recent Panorama episode about the substances known as ‘forever chemicals’.

Caroline works with all departments in the firm to provide media relations and internal communications support.

Maxine works across all Leigh Day departments as a senior media relations manager

Mike works across all Leigh Day departments as a senior media relations manager