Thompsons Solicitors

Lawyers 275
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Offices 18

The firm recently successfully challenged regulations introduced by Boris Johnson’s government that allowed employers to replace striking staff with temporary workers. In a challenge backed by the Trade Union Congress, the High Court declared the changes unlawful. Kwasi Kwarteng, at the time business secretary, had been tasked with crafting the regulations as union leaders prepared for a “summer of discontent” last year, but the High Court was told that he had in effect failed to consult unions, as the law required.

It also represents hundreds of women who suffered injury because of the rogue surgeon Ian Paterson, who was jailed for 20 years in 2017 after carrying out unnecessary operations on hundreds of patients. Concerns had originally focused on Paterson’s breast surgery, but new victims have claimed that he operated on them for other reasons, from varicose veins to the removal of appendixes and gallbladders. Coroners will also be investigating Paterson’s unregulated practice of “cleavage-sparing mastectomies”.