Air Pollution

Our team of lawyers is committed to taking on air pollution cases that impact on the vulnerable to protect their rights. 

The team challenged state bodies in relation to failures to take sufficient steps to reduce exposure to air pollution and provide legal representation to families, residents and others who have concerns about the impact on their health. For example, protection for those who work alongside busy roads and are exposed to high levels of air pollution on a regular basis.

The failure to address the long-known risk of poor health and death resulting from living and working in areas with toxic air must be challenged, and we’re here to help raise those challenges.

Whatever your needs, our team of highly experienced solicitors can provide you with the help and advice you need. Call us or send an email.

Once we have assessed all the relevant information, we’ll let you know if you have a case we can assist with. We’ll then arrange a time to meet or talk through to discuss your needs and particular situation in greater detail.

You’ll then be allocated a solicitor specialising in the field to help you find the best possible resolution during a stressful and often sensitive time.

Jocelyn Cockburn, a Partner in our team, has represented the family of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah who died on 15 February 2013 from asthma, aged nine, for over seven years. Ella lived only 25 metres from the highly polluted South Circular Road in London.

For three years between 2010 and 2013 she suffered a series of asthma attacks that led to regular hospitalisation. The first inquest did not investigate what had triggered her asthma. This led the family to approach Jocelyn to explore whether there was a link between her episodes of ill health and her exposure to air pollution.

A petition signed by 177,363 people called for a second inquest into her death. In 2019, the High Court ordered that there should be a second inquest into Ella’s death that should investigate whether air pollution had contributed to her death.