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Human rights activist Ghanem Al-Masarir’s four-year legal claim against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) over the use of spyware can finally be examined by the courts after the Court of Appeal struck out the KSA’s appeal.

Dieselgate legal claims could be accelerated with increased co-operation between law firms, advised a High Court judge. Mrs Justice Cockerill urged the legal teams involved in multiple legal claims over the diesel vehicle emissions scandal to “break down” formal legal processes to ensure the claims progress speedily.

A man who sustained a back injury while working on an offshore oil rig has secured a six-figure settlement from his employer.  

Good Law Project and Leigh Day have launched a legal challenge against the Government over its exclusion of onshore wind development from its National Policy Statement for renewable energy.

An Employment Tribunal has found that Prof Jo Phoenix was discriminated against and harassed by her employer, the Open University, because of her gender critical beliefs. Prof Phoenix also succeeded in her claim for constructive dismissal.

Law firm Leigh Day has welcomed two new legal partners to its rapidly expanding Liverpool and Manchester offices, strengthening its expertise in asbestos and human rights work.

A man who believes his wife’s death was connected to significant asbestos exposure while working on a food processing line at Derbyshire-based Maconochie Brothers factory in the 1960s is appealing for information.

Undeterred campaigners will fight on and bid to take their legal challenge against the Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station to the Supreme Court.

Steven McNally has been jailed for 26 years after he was convicted of sexual abuse at Nazareth House Children’s Home in Nottingham in the 1970s.

The inquest into the death of Heather Milton, who died at Royal Sussex County Hospital, has found that she died as a result of a cardiac arrest following an uncommon cause of acute abdominal pain known as rectus sheath hematoma.

Ryan Castellucci intends to appeal a judgment given in the High Court that while a decision not to grant them a nonbinary Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) was discriminatory, it could be justified on the grounds of administrative convenience.

Individuals and their families frustrated by another delay to the Infected Blood Inquiry final report have called for a compensation scheme to be put in place urgently.