2025 News

A legal challenge brought by campaign group Save Bristol Gardens Alliance (SBGA) against a proposed housing development on the site of Bristol Zoo Gardens is due to be heard in court.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings contributed to the decline in the mental state of Kristie Hunt who took her own life aged 31, a coroner found at the inquest into her death.

The campaign group Luton and District Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise (LADACAN) has taken the first step towards a legal challenge to the expansion of London Luton Airport, arguing that development consent for the proposed development was granted unlawfully.

A nurse who was sexually harassed and assaulted at work by a former colleague has received a five-figure settlement after South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust refused to refer the case to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

More than 1700 rural villagers from Malawi are taking legal action in the English High Court against UK multinational Associated British Foods, claiming flood defences protecting a sugar plantation it owns diverted floodwater following a tropical storm into their village, destroying it and killing seven people, including two children.

Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has slammed the environmental provisions in the government’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB), arguing that it will erase the level of environmental protection provided by existing law.

Immigration lawyers are preparing a memorandum for the Home Office to summarise a day of debate with 250 experts, all working in the field. 

The family of a former lagger, who was exposed to asbestos when working at Chatham Docks, has received a settlement after he died from mesothelioma.

Campaign group Transport Action Network (TAN) is appealing against the government’s decision to cut funding for cycling and walking schemes across England.

Birmingham paedophile Richard Burrows who evaded capture for 27 years by stealing a terminally ill man’s identity, has been sentenced to 46 years in prison for 54 child sex abuse charges.

Oliver Nugent, 27, Elliot Millar, 22, and Daniel McNulty-Doyle, 22, have been sentenced after a BBC Panorama programme revealed bullying and assaults on pupils at Merseyside school for children with special educational needs and disabilities, LIFE.

Research investigating Shein’s supply chains has identified probable links between an industrial park backed by the fashion retailer and Xinjiang based cotton and textile manufacturers.