2020 News

Campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed has issued legal proceedings against the Chancellor and in doing so will argue that the implementation of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) discriminates against women.

MPs have called for the restoration of democratic rights of 250 MPs who are shielding from the COVID-19 pandemic and claim they have been unlawfully blocked from Parliamentary debate.

Following the crane collapse on houses and a block of flats in Bow, London, which resulted in the tragic death of a women and injuries to four other people, the lawyer who represented victims of the Battersea crane collapse in 2006, which killed two people, has said that incidents such as these should be considered 'never-events'.

The Sikh Federation (UK) has been granted permission by Mr Justice Lewis for a full Judicial Review hearing in the High Court, expected to take place in October 2020.

Wildlife campaign group Wild Justice has launched a legal case challenging Natural England's failure to ensure that badgers are being killed humanely as part of the annual cull to help prevent the spread of bovine TB.

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is considering what legal options are available after the Government announced that it will resume the granting of new licences for arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the rest of the coalition that is bombing Yemen.

Groups representing families affected by the use in pregnancy of the epilepsy drug Sodium Valproate have delivered their response to the Cumberlege Review, published July 8.

An appeal has been launched in the EU's highest court to enable a legal challenge to biomass rules in the EU Directive on Renewable Energy, known as RED II to be heard.

The High Court will hear the Asbestos Victims Support Groups' Forum UK's challenge to the Lord Chancellor's review of Part 2 of the LASPO Act 2012.

A statement from Leigh Day in reaction to events in the USA and the protests following the death of George Floyd

Lawyer Ross Whalley who is acting for a number of bereaved families over the lack of PPE and other workplace protections provided by employers during the COVID outbreak has welcomed the commitment by the Government to investigate claims that Leicester garment factories ordered sick employees to carry on working as normal despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leigh Day client Tommy Greene writes about his legal challenge to the government over its failure to publish the contents of the Cygnus Exercise report.