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Former dancers who attended elite schools Elmhurst Ballet School and Royal Ballet School are calling for information from witnesses following experiences of body shaming by school staff causing years of trauma.

The death of nine-year-old Dylan Cope at University Hospital of Wales could have been avoided and neglect contributed, a coroner has concluded.

Leigh Day human rights lawyer Anna Moore says immediate action is needed to protect vulnerable young people who are detained under a court order, as senior Family Court Judge called the issue a “crisis”. 

Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) has secured a Court of Appeal hearing in its application for a judicial review of the Government’s decision to approve a £2.5bn road scheme through Stonehenge World Heritage Site, for a second time.

Leigh Day’s John Crowley and Silvana Velez have been shortlisted for the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards 2024 (LALYs).

Asylum Aid has filed a claim in the High Court challenging the Home Office’s ‘Safety of Rwanda’ guidance.

Lawyers at Leigh Day, who represent around 300 people impacted by the infected blood scandal, say the findings of the Infected Blood Inquiry’s Report are a vindication of their clients’ fight for justice spanning four decades.

No cause of death could be determined at the inquest of six-year-old Maya Siek at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQMH) in Margate, a coroner concluded.

Around 16,000 households and business in the Brixham area have been issued with ’boil water notices’ after cryptosporidium was found in the local water supply network. Notices were issued by South West Water.

A move to introduce a law of causing death or serious injury by dangerous careless or inconsiderate cycling does not address the greater problem when legal reform is needed say personal injury lawyers who represent British Cycling.

Pressure is mounting on British Car Auctions (BCA) to pay their drivers holiday pay and at least national minimum wage with more than 800 gig economy workers joining the legal battle for workers’ rights against the company.

A woman who experienced physical and psychiatric injuries following allegedly negligent tension free vaginal tape (TVT) surgery has been awarded a six-figure settlement.