2025 News

Villagers from farming and fishing communities in Zambia are taking legal action against Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals (FQM) claiming the company effectively forced them to leave their villages and resettle in areas where they face severe hardship and poverty.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has been ordered by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to release more information about a 2022 E. coli outbreak which led to more than 250 infections and at least 77 hospitalisations. 

A High Court judgment on chicken and other agricultural waste has been welcomed by lawyers leading a legal claim against Cargill, whose chicken production companies, including Avara Foods, they allege are one of the main polluters of the River Wye.

A retired joiner from Leeds is appealing for information from his former colleagues to help him understand how he may have been exposed to asbestos.

A coroner has issued a Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report to Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport over the lack of regulation of child contact sports.

Leigh Day partner Dino Nocivelli believes that the case of a Birmingham paedophile evading capture for 27 years by stealing a terminally ill man’s identity and fleeing the country is cause for serious concern. 

A spontaneous police pursuit by an officer unauthorised to carry out pursuits “significantly contributed” to the fatal collision which resulted in the deaths of Wigan couple Ryan Duffy and Ellie Marsden, an inquest jury has concluded.

The Motherhood Group is hosting its third annual conference and awards ceremony at the Minster Building, London on Friday 21 March.

More than 100 residents from two quilombola communities (descendants of Afro-Brazilian slaves) in Bahia state in Brazil will be able to have their claim against UK-based mining company Brazil Iron heard in an English court following a judgment handed down Friday 14 March. 

Employment lawyers are concerned that McDonald’s may not have taken sufficient steps for the continued actions of its franchisees following reports of harassment and discrimination by staff. 

A man who worked at the Longbridge car plant, and then as a bus driver, is appealing to former colleagues for information after being diagnosed with mesothelioma - an incurable cancer caused by asbestos.

Privacy International, Liberty and two individuals, Gus Hosein and Ben Wizner, are challenging the Home Secretary’s apparent decision to use her powers to secretly force Apple to give the UK Government access to users’ secured data stored on iCloud.