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In December 2020, HM Assistant Coroner for Inner South London, Philip Barlow, concluded that air pollution contributed to nine-year-old Ella Adoo Kissi-Debrah’s death in 2013. The Assistant Coroner has now issued a Prevention of Future Deaths report dated 20 April 2021, which can be read here. This comes against a background of mounting pressure on…

On 4 March 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“the CJEU”) handed down judgment in Commission v UK (Limit Values – Nitrogen Dioxide) [2021] EUECJ C-664/18. The CJEU declared that the UK had breached certain of its obligations under Directive 2008/50 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe, which entered…

A global campaign has been launched to mandate the introduction of filtration and warning systems on commercial aircraft and address concerns over alleged ‘aerotoxic syndrome’. The ‘Aerotoxicity Litigation’ concerns claims by employees of airlines who allege that they have been exposed to toxic substances in aircraft cabin air and have thus sustained personal injury (including…