Leigh Day partner Jamie Beagent has signed an annual open letter marking Human Rights Day

December 10 is Human Rights Day. On this day every year, the Leigh Day human rights department joins co-signatories in signing an open letter. Over 180 co-signatories have signed this year's open letter and are standing together to call out recent rhetoric from government and demand better from the Prime Minister. We want leadership that strengthens rights, not weakens them – because dignity, fairness, and accountability matter.

Human rights make up a key part of Leigh Day’s work, with the firm working tirelessly to ensure that people in the UK and across the world have access to justice in the protection of their rights.
Over the past year, Leigh Day cases have included:

• Supporting victims of abuse by former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, John Smyth and at the Bright Horizons nursery
• Fighting for justice for victims of the infected blood scandal
• Representing John’s Campaign and Care Rights UK at the Covid Inquiry
• Representing families of victims at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital
• Helping a Sheffield Hallam professor secure academic freedom in the face of pressure from the Chinese Government to curtail her research.
• Representing two police officers’ challenging the century old prohibition on police officers joining a union.

The firm joins a range of organisations including NGOs, charities and campaign groups in working to ensure that leaders uphold their commitments to protecting the fundamental rights that everyone should be entitled to.

Leigh Day partner Jamie Beagent said:

“Human rights continues to be a major part of our work at Leigh Day, and I am proud of great scope of cases that our teams have worked on over the past 12 months.  We are committed to upholding those rights on behalf of our clients in face of increasingly hostile rhetoric from the government and politicians.”