2023 News

More than 100 current and recent McDonald’s workers have told the BBC about a toxic culture of sexual assault, harassment, racism and bullying at the fast-food restaurants’ UK outlets.

Campaigners who fought the expansion of Bristol Airport have joined with the Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) to ask the Transport Secretary to help them understand how the Government airports planning policy fits with its net zero greenhouse gas emissions pledges.

Content warning: this article contains reference to methods of suicide. The family of a woman whose mental health rapidly deteriorated after she caught Covid have called for lessons to be learned from the failures in her care and an improved understanding of the mental health impact of the Covid pandemic.

Afghan families who have been promised relocation to the UK are stranded in third countries because they have been told there is no suitable accommodation for them in this country.

A team of Leigh Day lawyers and support staff have received the Legal Aid Lawyer of Year (LALY) award for Outstanding Achievement for their work surrounding the Molly Russell inquest.

Leigh Day abuse lawyer Dino Nocivelli has been instructed by a client who allegedly suffered childhood sexual abuse at Dr Challoner’s Grammar School in Buckinghamshire in the 1980s and is appealing for information.

The Illegal Migration Bill will effectively extinguish the right to seek asylum in the UK, say lawyers who have examined the proposed legislation on behalf of human rights charity, Freedom from Torture.

Under threat of legal action, the British government has apologised to a leading victim of its secret blacklisting policies.

An independent review into how the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) reported fatal paramedic errors to families and coroners in 2018 and 2019 has fallen short of concluding the service deliberately made changes to reports and withheld documentation but says “there are significant learning opportunities to be gained”.

Campaigners will continue fighting the decision to give the go ahead to build  Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station which EDF claims will produce electricity for 60 years in the heart of Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Natural Beauty, principally on the issue of a permanent water supply.

Migrant workers’ claims against Dyson Group of forced labour and dangerous conditions in a Malaysian factory producing the company’s electrical goods will be heard at the High Court between 17 and 19 July.

A review into poor maternity care in Nottingham is now investigating 1700 cases, making it the largest carried out in the UK.