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June 15, 2019

Campaigners launch legal challenge over UK’s ‘secret trade talks’ with United States

Global Justice Now has launched a legal challenge over the Department for International Trade’s failure to release details of numerous trade meetings it has held with the United States and other countries since the EU referendum in 2016.
May 30, 2019

Legal case launched against Saudi Arabia for alleged use of spyware to target dissident

A prominent human rights activist who has been involved in campaigning for political reform in Saudi Arabia has launched a legal claim against the Saudi government, alleging they have targeted him with spyware.
May 20, 2019

Legal challenge to government over disabled people who have lost out on Universal Credit

A group of disabled people are preparing to bring a legal challenge against the government after losing out on benefits when they were migrated over to the universal credit system.
May 13, 2019

Employment Tribunal hears second stage of UK’s largest equal pay claim

Workers employed by Asda will have the second stage of their equal pay claim heard by the Employment Tribunal in Manchester beginning on Monday 13 May 2019.
May 7, 2019

Successful legal challenge to voting provisions for blind and partially sighted people

The High Court has declared the Government’s current arrangements for blind and partially sighted voters unlawful, and described them as being “a parody of the electoral process”.
May 3, 2019

High Court finds Universal Credit migration arrangements unlawful

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Universal Credit migration arrangements for those who previously received the Severe Disability Premium and moved onto Universal Credit before 16 January 2019 are unlawful.
April 22, 2019

Lawyers for contaminated blood victims urge national testing programme

Lawyers have called on NHS England to set up a nationwide screening programme for people who may have been infected with Hepatitis C virus as a result of the contaminated blood scandal.
April 13, 2019

Government breached prisoners’ human rights by not allowing them to vote

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the government breached prisoners’ human rights by refusing to allow them to vote.
April 11, 2019

Supreme Court rules Zambian villagers' case against Vedanta to be heard in English courts

The claimants allege that toxic effluent discharge from the Nchanga Copper Mine has damaged land and waterways and caused health problems through the consumption of polluted water.
April 9, 2019

High Court rules against 'worst gangmaster ever' in modern slavery case

A group of Lithuanian men were put to work in terrible conditions by a British company, catching chickens at farms all over the country.