Topic: Leigh Day

UK to reveal 1950s treatment of Kenyan rebels

0 . Lawyers acting for Kenyans who claim they were tortured by the British during an anti-colonial rebellion in the 1950s have forced the Foreign ...

Iraqi interpreters sue government: lawyers

Forty Iraqi interpreters who worked for British forces in Iraq lauched a group action against the government at the High Court in London, arguing that it failed to protect them, according to their lawyers.The Leigh Day & Co legal firm said its ...
Forty Iraqi interpreters who worked for British forces in Iraq lauched a group action against the government at the High Court in London, arguing that it failed to protect them, according to their lawyers.The Leigh Day & Co legal firm said its ...

Deal reached over Trafigura payout in I.Coast

Lawyers for Dutch multinational Trafigura and victims of toxic waste poisoning in the Ivory Coast said they have reached a deal over distributing millions of dollars in damages.Claude Gohourou, president of the victims' association, said distribution of the funds "will be ...
An appeals court in Abidjan has ordered a law firm representing 30,000 victims of toxic waste pollution to transfer the compensation money they received to the account controlled by a man heading a victim's association.Roughly $46 million had been ...

I.Coast court unfreezes Trafigura compensation

An Ivory Coast court on Friday ordered the unfreezing of 33 million euros' (47 million dollars) compensation owed to victims of toxic waste dumped from a cargo ship, according to a judicial source.Oil trading firm Trafigura agreed to pay the money ...

Trafigura waste victims waiting for compensation

Thousands of victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast are still waiting for compensation two months after a settlement was agreed because of a dispute over who should distribute the money.Oil trading firm Trafigura agreed to pay 33 million euros ...
A British court approved Wednesday the settlement of thousands of claims against oil-trading company Trafigura Beheer BV related to the dumping of toxic waste around the Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan.As part of the settlement, Leigh Day & "Terms of ...
Oil-trading company Trafigura has agreed to pay 30 million pounds to victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast in an out-of-court settlement, a spokesman for the firm said Sunday.The agreement with British lawyers Leigh Day and Company, who represent 31 ...

Firm settles over I.Coast toxic waste claims

Oil-trading company Trafigura has agreed to pay 30 million pounds to victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast in an out-of-court settlement, a spokesman for the firm said Sunday.The agreement with British lawyers Leigh Day and Company, who represent 31 ...