2020 News

A mesothelioma claim was settled for a young doctor exposed to asbestos while training and working at Walsgrave Hospital in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

A young woman who has Down Syndrome and has associated learning difficulties is making a legal case against newly imposed charges for care that her family fears will prevent her ever being able to become independent.

An NHS doctor is taking a legal case against the Government seeking the publication of the findings of the flu-pandemic exercise code-named 'Exercise Cygnus' which took place in 2016.

A second judicial review challenge has been brought by Amrik Singh Gill, on behalf of the Sikh Federation UK, against the Cabinet Office in response to the draft Census (England and Wales) Order 2020 that was laid before Parliament on 2 March.

Increased demand on retail staff working in supermarkets, who are on the frontline in the current coronavirus pandemic, has renewed calls for shop workers to be paid the same as those in distribution centres.

A former junior solicitor who was struck off the Roll and barred from the profession by the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT), after mistakenly leaving a briefcase containing case documents on a train, is appealing against the decision.

Transport Action Network (TAN) is challenging the Secretary of State's decision to go ahead with Road Investment Strategy 2 (RIS2), described by the Chancellor as the “largest ever” road plans in England.

Essex man Neil Coughlan is continuing his legal campaign against the Government's pilot schemes to require voter ID at the polling station. His case will be heard by three senior judges at the Court of Appeal on Thursday, April 23 by video link.

The High Court has today ruled that EY repeatedly breached the Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants at the highest levels of management during an audit of a leading Dubai Gold refiner.

The family of a former Merseyside maintenance engineer, who died from mesothelioma in 2018, received a six-figure settlement from his former employer.

Environmental campaigner Chris Packham CBE has announced that he is seeking permission to appeal the decision by the High Court to dismiss his judicial review of the government's go-ahead on HS2.

The High Court has ruled today in favour of thousands of consumers that Volkswagen used a 'defeat device' on some of its diesel cars which was able to cheat emissions tests.