A group of migrant workers taking legal action against two Dyson UK companies and a Dyson Malaysian company over alleged forced labour and dangerous working and living conditions at a Malaysian factory have been given permission to appeal a High Court decision that the case should be heard in Malaysia and not England.

The workers’ claims relate to allegations of forced labour, false imprisonment, assault, battery, cruel and degrading treatment and exposure to extremely hazardous working conditions and abusive living conditions.

The appeal hearing, which will take place at the Court of Appeal on 26 or 27 November 2024 relates to a 2023 High Court decision after Dyson, which is now headquartered in Singapore, challenged the right of the English courts to hear the claims…

The judge found that the case should be heard in Malaysia after the defendant Dyson companies, argued there was not a sufficient connection to the UK for it to be heard here…

The legal claims are being brought by 23 migrant workers and the estate of one deceased migrant worker…

…The factory in the Johor region of Malaysia is operated by ATA Industrial and the Dyson companies deny in its response to the legal claim that it is responsible for any unlawful acts of ATA Industrial…