2023 News

The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has announced a major recall of gas hobs which present a serious risk of poisoning, burns, or gas explosion and/or fire.

Leading data breach lawyers have confirmed that recent announcements that employee and customer information from more companies has been hacked by Clop as a result of the MOVEit cyber-attack may lead to claims for compensation by those affected.

International human rights lawyers have welcomed a move by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights (UN) to ask the European Commission (EC) to justify its position on excluding the United Kingdom (UK) from the cross-border legal cooperation international treaty, the “Lugano Convention”.

A judicial review into the provision of support for child trafficking victims will be heard in the High Court on 4-5 July. A victim of child trafficking has brought the case after he was not given any specialist support for his trafficking-related needs from the Home Office and his local authority for several years.

Joint head of the asbestos and industrial disease team at Leigh Day, Harminder Bains, has been interviewed by investigative journalists Ceri Thomas and Alexi Mostrous for the new Tortoise podcast series ‘Into the Dirt’. They discussed the spy Robert Moore who was hired by Matteo Bigazzi his 'handler’ at K2 Intelligence Limited.

The inquest into the death of Luke Ashton has concluded that a gambling disorder caused his death by suicide. It is believed that this is the first time that this has ever been recorded in an inquest. Area Coroner Ivan Cartwright added that he will be making a Prevention of Future Deaths report, which will include his concerns about a lack of meaningful interaction or intervention in Luke’s gambling by the gambling operator Betfair, owned by Flutter.

The Court of Appeal has today ruled that the Home Secretary’s Rwanda removals process is unlawful on grounds of safety and that sending anyone to Rwanda would breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Prominent immigration and asylum lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie and her team at Leigh Day will be running a series of legal surgeries for those affected by the Windrush scandal throughout July.

The High Court has today confirmed that three fresh inquests will take place into the deaths of Arthur Denis Brian Cunningham, Gladys Mabel Richards and Robert Wilson who all died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire in 1998.

The law firm Leigh Day, which represents thousands of UK car owners involved in so-called ‘dieselgate’ emissions claims, has welcomed a court ruling in Germany that manufacturers should pay compensation to owners of vehicles fitted with illegal emissions controlling devices.

Leading data breach lawyers say the recent announcement by Shell that employee and customer information has been hacked may lead to claims for compensation by those affected.

Allegations of abuse by Colin York at the Royal Alexandra and Albert School in Surrey are being investigated by lawyers who have been contacted by former pupils of the school in the 1970s.