2025 News

Helen Wildbore, Director of Care Rights UK will give oral evidence on Tuesday 29 July to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry’s Social Care module, presenting first-hand insight into how people’s rights and wellbeing were sidelined in the context of adult social care during the pandemic.

The High Court has ruled that five car manufacturers at the centre of Dieselgate legal claims must reveal information in hundreds of documents that they claimed were confidential which will be at the heart of a major trial over whether their vehicles cheated emissions tests.

A jury has found that Sheldon Jeans from Portsmouth died on or about 13 November 2022 after accessing and consuming alcohol that had been illicitly brewed, or “hooch”, as well as four different medications that had not been prescribed to him, while a prisoner at HMP Guys Marsh, a category C men’s prison, near Shaftesbury, Dorset.

GMB Union has launched legal proceedings against Bradford Metropolitan District Council on behalf of workers fighting for equal pay. 

Goods produced using forced labour are being sold in the UK, despite the Government’s position that no company operating in the UK should have a supply chain that involves forced labour of any kind, according to a new report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR).

The Product Regulation and Metrology (PRAM) Bill has received royal assent in what a leading product safety lawyer has called "a step forward for consumers” towards “bringing online marketplaces in line with the high street”.  

Lawyers representing three MPs in a legal campaign against the UK government have welcomed scrutiny of foreign interference in elections in a judgment handed down by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), calling on states not to remain “passive” against threats to electoral processes.

Two Trafford residents have brought a High Court legal challenge to Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council over a recently-introduced council tax reduction scheme, which they say unlawfully deprives low-income households of vital support.

Campaign group Foodrise (formerly Global Feedback Limited) has applied to the Supreme Court over the government’s bid to remove a cap on costs in its legal challenge to UK legislation implementing the free trade agreement with Australia.

The family of Lillie Clack who died after a car crash with a drink-driver at the wheel say they need their pain to “mean something” as they call for changes to driving laws following an inquest into Lillie’s death. 

Law firm Leigh Day is celebrating the three-year anniversary of its Leeds office opening, and its commitment to securing justice for people across Yorkshire.

A serving police officer has launched a legal challenge against the Home Secretary over a century-old legal provision that bars police officers from joining or forming a trade union.