2022 News

The High Court in London is due to hear a case brought by two Bahraini dissidents, who now live in the UK, against the Kingdom of Bahrain for the alleged use of FinFisher surveillance software known as FinSpy on their computers. The hearing will take place on Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 February 2022.

Court of Appeal judges were divided over an appeal brought by campaigner Sarah Finch in which she argued that Surrey County Council acted unlawfully when it decided to grant planning permission for new oil wells and oil production at Horse Hill near to Gatwick Airport in September 2019.

Jonathan Clarke, a 31-year-old football coach from Highview Close, Blofield, has admitted seven charges of sexual offences against children so far after his arrest in Norwich on 6 January 2022, it has been reported.

A Sunday Times report has revealed that a doctor who worked in Royal Stoke University Hospital and Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley has been arrested by police on suspicion of child sexual offences.

Teacher Neil Francis, aged 46, has been jailed for nine years following a Thames Valley Police investigation into child sex offences perpetrated while he worked as a teacher in Milton Keynes.

Campaigner Neil Coughlan’s legal challenge to the piloting of requirement for voters to present identification at polling stations in local elections will be heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, 15 February.

The Wildlife Trusts have, for the second consecutive year, written to the Environment Secretary raising concerns that his decision to allow the use of a toxic pesticide on sugar beet, despite the serious danger it poses to bees, may be unlawful.

The High Court has today made a ruling clarifying the Civil Procedural Rules relating to the amendment of claim forms prior to service. The effect of the ruling, which is part of the Mercedes emissions case, will help ensure access to justice for group claims litigation, according to lawyers for the claimants Leigh Day.

A group of migrant workers who worked in a factory in Malaysia which predominantly manufactured products for Dyson have launched legal claims against Dyson relating to allegations of extensive violations of their legal rights including forced labour, physical and psychological injuries, false imprisonment, cruel and degrading treatment and exposure to extremely hazardous working conditions.

Student Theo Brennan-Hulme was failed by the University of East Anglia and Norwich Health Care Trust psychiatric emergency service said his parents following almost three years of inquest proceedings into his death.

The High Court has today ordered Peugeot and Citroen to disclose information and documentation regarding alleged defeat devices on their vehicles. The court dismissed the vehicle manufacturers’ attempt to rely on a rarely used piece of French law to block the case which is part of the ongoing ‘dieselgate’ legal claims.

Former emergency department doctor Tayabb Shah who sexually abused two male patients has been jailed for four and a half years.