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High Court rules autistic man’s social and life skills activities must be classed as disability related expenditure
A 25-year-old man with autism has won his legal case which argued that the cost of activities related to attending a daily social and life skills group should be deemed disability related expenditure (DRE) and cannot be ignored when calculating how much he should pay towards the cost of his care.
Leigh Day’s Head of Immigration and Asylum accuses Home Office of institutional racism over “slow and inefficient” Windrush compensation scheme
Leigh Day partner and the firm’s Head of Immigration and Asylum, Jacqueline McKenzie, has accused the Home Office of institutional racism after delays to compensation payments to people affected by the Windrush scandal.
Del Monte Kenya pineapple plantation at centre of human rights abuse allegations
Fruit giant Del Monte is accused of betraying its human rights pledges with allegations against security guards of violent beatings and the rape of villagers living near to its pineapple plantation in Kenya.
Cervical cancer in woman, aged 23, went undiagnosed after GP failed in duty of care
A GP admitted she had failed in a duty of care after a 23-year-old woman’s cervical cancer went undiagnosed.
Court of Appeal gives permission for judicial review of Government's failure to ensure Food Strategy met carbon budget targets
The Government’s failure to ensure its Food Strategy contributed to meeting its carbon budgets will be judicially reviewed after the Court of Appeal gave permission to food campaign group Feedback.
Defence weapons expert Dan Kaszeta legally challenges Government over decision to “no platform” him
Defence weapons expert Dan Kaszeta has launched a legal challenge to Cabinet office guidance which requires civil servants to vet the social media of proposed speakers and resulted in him being disinvited to a conference he had been asked to address.
Support family of retired British Gas engineer who died from asbestos cancer
The family of a former London and Kent British Gas engineer are appealing for information from his many former colleagues about his working life.
Legal challenge to UK Transit Visa system that leaves migrant fishers victim of human rights abuses
Human rights lawyers are challenging the Home Office over visa arrangements that left three Ghanaian fishermen the victims of modern slavery in the UK.
Driver who killed and injured cyclists in Worcestershire is sentenced
Driver Sania Shabbir who killed one cyclist and seriously injured another in a collision in Worcestershire in 2020 has been imprisoned for 4.5 years.
Supreme Court to hear challenge to planning permission for oil production at Horse Hill, Surrey
Campaigner Sarah Finch has a Supreme Court hearing on 21 and 22 June in her fight against Surrey County Council’s decision to grant planning permission for oil production at Horse Hill, near to Gatwick Airport.
Court of Appeal hearing over Government’s failure to address emissions from meat and dairy
Lawyers representing food systems campaign group Feedback will argue in the Court of Appeal on 16 June that the Government’s failure to adopt measures to reduce meat and dairy production and consumption in its Food Strategy published in June 2022 was unlawful.
Blind man who fell on to tracks at Manchester Piccadilly calls for urgent upgrade of safe travel provision with tactile paving in train stations
A blind man who fell on to the tracks at Manchester Piccadilly after he was let down by Passenger Assist and there was no tactile paving at the platform edge is calling for urgent action to improve provision for disabled people travelling on trains.