Legal News
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Posted 04/01/2010 The NHS has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money on legal efforts to deny female workers the equal pay to which they are entitled under employment law. Public...
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Posted 06/07/2014 Dying need ‘free social care’ say cancer campaigners A report issued by Macmillan Cancer Support says that providing free social care could save the NHS £69m a year...
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Posted 03/07/2014 £7,000 obtained for family of Suffolk man following his premature death in hospital Julie Crossley, a medical injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a settlement of £7,000...
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Posted 08/11/2010 A man who suffered devastating injuries when he was knocked down by a car has been awarded £1.13 million in personal injury compensation. Slovakian national Milan Rybansky, 34,...
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Posted 24/12/2009 The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on the government to do more to safeguard the rights of agency workers under employment law. Brendan Barber, general secretary of...
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Posted 13/10/2009 The redundancy rate in the UK dropped to 233,000 in the three months to August 2009, official figures have revealed. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS),...
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Posted 04/09/2014 Warnings over e-cigarettes are alarmist and increasing their use could save many lives according to researchers at University College London (UCL). In their view, for every million smokers who...
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Posted 03/10/2012 The start of the legal year or at least the court year was on 1 October. Pictures of judges in procession, male and female, dressed in tights and...
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Posted 17/10/2010 A fun day stunt that went wrong has led to a council employee receiving a £24,000 personal injury payout. Lorraine Mallon was dressed as a tomato for the...
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Posted 23/09/2009 The Government has announced firm plans to change the procedure for claims involving road traffic accidents to a value of
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Posted 25/10/2010 Farms should never sacrifice health and safety in favour of productivity, as a recent case has demonstrated. This is according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which...
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Posted 29/07/2012 An NHS expert has said that the way vital signs, such as blood pressure and temperature are monitored in hospitals needs to be standardised across the NHS. Currently...
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