Legal News
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As our farming clients continue to battle with circumstances well beyond their control (coronavirus, extreme weather conditions, flooding, reduced environmental payments as well as increased price uncertainty post Brexit), we...
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With the Covid-19 situation evolving each day, and cases in the UK increasing rapidly, we are already regularly speaking to businesses about how their supply chains are being affected. A...
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As more aspects of the business move online, there is a drive to do everything digitally. The process of buying and selling property has always relied heavily on paper, but...
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A report released today (5 March) by the NHS’s Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has found that ectopic pregnancies are not being diagnosed quickly enough. Ectopic pregnancies occur when a...
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Maternity services at the East Kent NHS Trust are currently being reviewed after 15 babies have died in their care in recent years. Dan and Alison Halligan, the parents of...
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Heather Planner, 87, of Buckinghamshire, died from a stroke after being accidentally given another patient’s medication. Mrs Planner had been prescribed apixaban, a blood-thinning medicine. However when she went to...
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Ashtons Legal is proud to have signed up to be an Endometriosis Friendly Employer following a suggestion by a staff member, and someone living with the condition, Jessica Hitchcock. In...
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Machines that are able to detect sepsis are being installed at a children’s hospital in Scotland. The monitors, which have been fitted at Royal Hospital for Children, in Glasgow, are...
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More and more patients are having to be cared for in hospital corridors as a result of overcrowded A&E units, NHS staff have warned. “Corridor nursing” runs the risk of...
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West Suffolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds, has been faced with a medical negligence bill 10 times larger than last year, research has found. The hospital, which just last month...
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An inquest has begun in Ipswich today (24 February) into the death of a Lowestoft man who drowned in his bath. The man’s family have instructed Sharon Allison, a medical...
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A patient safety inquiry has been begun after a technological error meant that more than 28,000 pieces of confidential NHS mail were not delivered. The letters, containing medical correspondence to...
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