2023 News

A baby girl died aged just five days old following multiple failings by doctors and a midwife at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital to act on communicate problems that arose during labour and delivery.

Law firm Leigh Day has adopted an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) which allows non-legal staff members to become partners in the firm commencing 1 June 2023. 

An urgent safety alert has been issued for the recall of Philips Health Systems V60 and V60 Plus non-invasive ventilators following a review of the risks posed to patient safety in hospitals.

Law firm Leigh Day has won UK Law Firm of the Year at this year’s Chambers Europe Awards. The winners were announced at a ceremony in Milan on 25 May 2023.

Nonbinary US citizen Ryan Castellucci has been granted permission to bring a judicial review regarding their entitlement to a gender recognition certificate (GRC) under the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA).

Is there a legal basis for a claim for reparations on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade? Leigh Day, in partnership with Bell Ribeiro Addy MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Afrikan Reparations, hosted its first event to address the question in May 2023.

Football fans who attended the Champions League final at the Stade de France on May 28, 2022, are still dealing with the physical and psychological damage caused by the events that unfolded.

A man who was sexually assaulted by Shebbear College caretaker Anthony ‘Tony’ Bennett has settled a claim against the Methodist Independent Schools Trust (MIST).

The High Court has today ruled in favour of environmental campaigner and naturalist Chris Packham CBE in his defamation case brought against Dominic Wightman, editor of Country Squire Magazine, and one of the magazine’s contributors, Nigel Bean. The court accepted the account of a third defendant, Paul Read, who claimed he was a mere proof reader.

Lawyers who have represented hundreds of survivors of child sexual abuse have described the government’s response to the recommendations of the IICSA as bitterly disappointing.

Leigh Day human rights solicitors Nath Gbikpi and Stephanie Hill have been announced as finalists for the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards 2023 (LALYs) in the Immigration and Asylum Law category and the Public Law category respectively.

An Employment Tribunal has ordered Addison Lee to pay deposits up to £125,000 in order to continue with a number of their legal arguments in the workers’ right case brought by hundreds of drivers.