2025 News

Campaign group Communities Against Gatwick Noise Emissions (CAGNE) has put forward a legal challenge opposing the construction of a second operating runway at Gatwick Airport.

The mother of a 10-year-old boy who suffered a fatal asthma attack following a history of inadequate management of his asthma has settled her claim against Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Essex Partnership University NHS Trust, Queensway Surgery and East of England Ambulance Trust.  

Leading asbestos claims lawyers who sit on the Oversight Committee of the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (DMPS), and who have campaigned for improvements to the scheme for several years, have welcomed an announcement from the Department for Work and Pensions to upgrade compensation tariffs under the scheme by 49%.

A Tribunal judge has ordered the government to release details from notes and briefings held between the Secretary of State for Wales (SoS) and private companies, including Shell and Toyota, on net zero policies.

The legal claims against five leading car manufacturers over the Dieselgate scandal will be heard at the High Court from 10.30am on Monday 13 October 2025, in the trial of the largest group claim in English and Welsh legal history.

Lawyers representing a number of survivors of sexual abuse committed by former Catholic priest Dennis Finbow have welcomed news that he has now been sentenced for further offences involving multiple children over several decades.

A legal claim which almost 4,000 people have joined, challenging river pollution in the Wye and Usk catchment areas, has been filed at the High Court.

An inquest into the death of a 35-year-old Black mother concluded that there were tangible missed opportunities to change the course of events before her death.

Abuse claims specialist Dino Nocivelli has spoken out following the announcement that the government body for sport funding in the UK has launched a probe, after reports of prolific abuse in boxing.

A six-figure settlement has been secured on behalf of the family of a paper mill worker who died from asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma.  

Law firms Leigh Day, and Ison Harrison with chambers Garden Court North hosted a northern conference for charity INQUEST on Thursday, 18 September.

Leigh Day medical negligence solicitor Adam Lamb is investigating a legal claim on behalf of a family with concerns about their father’s death at Royal Sussex County Hospital.