2020 News

A hearing will be held on Thursday, 29 October in the legal challenge by Transport Action Network (TAN) into the government decision to give the go ahead for Road Investment Strategy 2.

A cyclist injured in a collision near Wakefield has called for harsher sentences for careless driving offences after the young driver who collided with him was handed only five points on his licence and a £350 fine.

John's Campaign, a group which campaigns for people with dementia to be supported by family carers, has issued urgent court proceedings challenging the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) guidance for visiting in care homes (“the Guidance”).

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has issued a legal challenge to the UK government's decision to renew arms sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) when they might be used in Yemen.

A Halloween campaign has been launched to highlight and combat the serious fire risk of so called “zombie lithium batteries”

Friends of the Earth has been given permission to make submissions in support of a legal case brought by a Surrey resident against the decision to allow oil wells on green belt farmland near to her home.

Asylum seekers who have experienced illegal detention in the UK under the application of an EU regulation are bringing a legal claim against the Home Office.

An NHS doctor and journalist campaigning for the release of the full findings into Exercise Cygnus, a pandemic simulation exercise in 2016, have issued a response to Matt Hancock's announcement that he has published the Cygnus Report.

A lawyer who represented people affected by the Buncefield gas explosion in 2005 has issued a statement following the Southall explosion

Gideon Habel and Emma Walker, solicitors in Leigh Day's regulatory and disciplinary team, have been awarded listings in Chambers and Partners UK guide for top legal professionals 2021.

LONDON AND JOHANNESBURG – 21 October 2020 – Lawyers from Mbuyisa Moleele and Leigh Day today announced that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Anglo American South Africa Limited (“AASA”), a subsidiary of London-headquartered multinational mining company Anglo American Plc (LSE: AAL, JSE: AGL), in the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa.

Hertfordshire police have concluded their investigation into reports of excessive use of sedation and non-recent sexual assaults against children who had stayed at Hill End Adolescent Unit a mental health facility in St Albans.