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International climate COP27

COP27 and beyond: Financing Loss and Damage from Climate Change

Katharina Theil, solicitor and trainee Sarah Gibbons, in the international team, discuss the calls to provide financial assistance to address loss and damage, a key agenda item in the UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt, as well as other legal routes in the fight for climate justice.

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Human rights DWP Housing benefit

Is the freeze to the Local Housing Allowance since April 2020 unlawful?

Lucy Cadd considers whether the stark choices facing tenants, and people who want to be tenants, mean that the effective cut in housing benefit  while rents have soared is unlawful.

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Football
UEFA Stade de France

“Treated with Contempt” - the independent report fans had been waiting for

Specialist personal injury lawyers Clare Campbell and Jill Paterson discuss the report of the independent panel led by Professor Phil Scraton

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Blind justice
Inquests

“Justice delayed is justice denied”: Inquests and the impact of systemic delays

Sophie Wells and Jess Smith, who work in the inquest team in our human rights department, discuss the impact of systemic delays to inquests.

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International

International Day of Rural Women: the importance of restorative justice

For the International Day of Rural Women, Rebecca Swan, Ana Rizelo and Alex Wessely consider the vital role Leigh Day legal cases have played in improving life for rural women.

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Malsis School
Human rights abuses Abuse claims

Malsis School convictions: how was abuse able to go on for so long?

Dino Nocivelli says answers are needed about abuse at the now-closed private preparatory school Malsis in North Yorkshire.

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Young Teenage Girl Flying Kite
Human rights Child protection

More hope for children in failure-to-remove claims

Anna Moore, senior associate solicitor and Samantha Freeze, trainee solicitor explain why recent cases offer hope to children who have been unable to pursue “failure-to-remove” claims against local authorities.

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High Court
consumer group litigation

Group Litigation Orders in consumer group litigation: the renewed case for reform

Partner Shazia Yamin, who led on the first Volkswagen emissions group action, and solicitor Claire Powell, discuss the need for reform in consumer group litigation and consider how different procedural mechanisms in other jurisdictions operate.

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Anonymous Teen Depressed Abuse
Human rights Abuse

Review of the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Alison Millar, head of Leigh Day Abuse Team, reflects on the the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)

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EU International

Consumer representative actions: Is the EU’s new system better?

Oliver Holland and Walker Syachalinga explain the differences between the European Union’s new system for bringing representative legal action and the system that still applies in England and Wales.

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Baby Feet
maternity Medical negligence

Kirkup Report into East Kent Maternity Services is a sad reflection of unlearned lessons in hospitals across England

Associate Solicitor Stephen Clarkson and trainee solicitor Meghana Hegdekar discuss the report by Dr Bill Kirkup into maternity services at East Kent Hospitals, the criticisms highlighted and what lessons can be learned going forward.

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IICSA Report Abuse Human rights

Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse – the journey to the inquiry’s final report and what it might contain

On Thursday the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse releases its final report, seven years after the inquiry was established. Andrew Lord looks back at the task which was put before the inquiry panel all those years ago and speculates on what we might see later this week.