June 27th, 2020 PGMBM has announced today that it is taking legal action against vehicle manufacturers Renault and Nissan, following allegations that illegal emissions defeat devices have been fitted in a number of cars and vans. Defeat devices are designed to sense when a car is under specific testing conditions, and accordingly turn on emissions controls, allowing the vehicle to falsely pass regulatory checks. PGMBM claim that, as a result of defeat devices, customers who owned or leased a Renault or Nissan car or van between 2009 and 2019 may

June 26th, 2020 PGMBM has instructed Sophie Holcombe and David Blayney QC of Serle Court in ongoing litigation against the aviation giant easyJet. In May, the airline announced that it had been subjected to a data theft attack, under which the confidential information of over nine million customers had been breached.  In over 2,000 cases, this included credit card details, alongside email addresses, names and travel itineraries. One of the UK’s largest data breaches to date, questions have been raised as to the efficacy of the cyber-security measures in place

June 1st, 2020 PGMBM has filed a claim against Daimler AG, parent company of Mercedes-Benz, in the Liverpool High Court. The case relates to a Mercedes diesel emissions scandal, which involves the use of defeat devices (also called ‘cheat devices’) on an estimated half million Mercedes diesel vehicles first registered between 2007 and 2018 in the United Kingdom. These defeat device software systems change the way the vehicles function in test scenarios, to help them meet required emissions and performance levels, when in day-to-day use, the vehicles would in fact

May 22nd, 2020 EasyJet Data Breach: PGMBM Issues Class Action Claim On Behalf Of Customers The EasyJet data breach was announced by the airline group on 19th May 2020. EasyJet publicly admitted that the sensitive personal data of nine million customers from around the world had been exposed in a “sophisticated” data breach. The cyber-attack took place in January 2020, but despite notifying the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office at that time, EasyJet waited four months before notifying its customers, who suffered a loss of privacy and weren’t even made aware

May 13, 2020 Our lawyers are dedicated to helping ordinary people fight for justice against the largest multinational corporations in the world. We are passionate about holding these corporate giants to account for the devastating and often irreparable damage they have inflicted on people and the environment. We are currently taking on companies such as BHP, British Airways and Volkswagen to secure the compensation our clients deserve. With PGMBM, we are growing our international team of leading solicitors and barristers to best equip the firm to expand the reach of