2025 News

A legal challenge by wildlife groups the Badger Trust and Wild Justice against the granting of badger culling licences has been given permission to be heard in the High Court.

A private hospital group has admitted failings in care after a 55-year-old woman’s pre-cancerous condition vulval intraepithelial neoplasia was misdiagnosed for four years.

An inquest into the death of a bipolar woman detained in a mental health unit heard that she choked on a slice of cake served in its plastic wrapper while she was left alone in her room.

An inquest into the death of 26-year-old Cain Donald found that had he been supervised when taking his prescribed medication and had his reluctance to take medication been escalated earlier, it is possible the deterioration in his condition, which ended in his death, could have been prevented.

Healthcare lawyer Julia Reynolds says a report sharing the experiences of more than 500 people who have used maternity and neonatal services in Swansea Bay University Health Board entirely bears out those of the families she is supporting.

Leading trans rights organisation, TransLucent has warned the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) that it believes comments made by the chair and a commissioner following the Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland v the Scottish Ministers that the term ‘woman’ in the Equality Act is defined by biological sex have harmed the consultation process.

Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has written to the government calling on it to correct a statement made in Parliament about the controversial new Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

After a challenge over the practice of capping of compensation for disabled rail passengers who do not receive their pre-booked assistance at the price of the ticket, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) will soon be launching a consultation into the guidance it provides to train operators about Accessible Travel Policies.

Leigh Day has been nominated in six categories at this year’s Manchester Legal Awards, set to take place in July.

Leigh Day lawyer Despina Kavadas will be a keynote speaker at Make Birth Better’s 10-year anniversary Birth Trauma Summit

Oil company Renaissance, to which Shell recently sold all its onshore Nigerian operations, will stand trial at the High Court in London from 10.30am Thursday 8 May to Wednesday 21 May 2025 over claims it has failed to adequately clean-up two huge oil spills in 2008 in the Niger Delta. The Bodo community say the trial is their final chance to stop the devastation Shell’s pollution has caused to their environment impacting their way of life for generations to come.

The Supreme Court has refused to grant Dyson permission to appeal a Court of Appeal ruling that allegations of forced labour and dangerous conditions at two Malaysian factories which made electronics products for the company can be heard in the English courts.