Legal News
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Posted 05/05/2010 A widow has won her case for industrial disease compensation after fighting a legal battle against her husband’s former employers. Ken Mitchell, 56, died in 2005 after developing...
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Posted 26/05/2014 A young Spixworth man who died after jumping from the roof of the Castle Mall in Norwich had told clinicians that he had rigged a noose in his...
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Posted 27/05/2014 Hospital agrees out-of-court settlement after Lincolnwoman’s suicide: A hospital has agreed to pay five figure damages after allegations that they didn’t recognize a Lincoln woman’s mental illness and...
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Posted 10/07/2014 It was reported today by the BBC that, in reply to their Freedom of Information Act requests, of the 62 trusts that replied , 51% said they had ...
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Posted 29/04/2010 Equity release should be promoted by the winner of the forthcoming election as a potential solution to retirement funding shortfalls. This is the view of trade body Safe...
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Posted 18/02/2011 Changes to UK employment law could end up costing British businesses millions of pounds, a new report has revealed. The study, undertaken by the British Chamber of Commerce...
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Posted 10/08/2014 A pioneering new breast cancer treatment will not be routinely available in England, the NHS drugs advisory body NICE is proposing. The drug – Kadcyla – adds six months...
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Posted 12/08/2014 An inquest has been arranged to investigate the death of a Luton girl following treatment for necrotizing fasciitis – also called the ‘flesh eating disease’. Link here to...
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Posted 18/08/2014 Cataract operations which had been outsourced to a private firm Vanguard Healthcare to help clear NHS backlog of patients were halted following complaints. Rosaline Wong, Clinical Negligence specialist...
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Posted 13/05/2010 Statistics released by the Ministry of Justice have shown that the number of people declaring themselves insolvent or bankrupt in the first three months of 2010 increased when...
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Posted 27/08/2014 A report published by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest has called for a greater transparency about the quality of healthcare in the private sector. Rosaline...
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Posted 17/01/2011 Julie Crossley, a clinical negligence lawyer at Ashtons Legal, has obtained compensation for Mrs P following unnecessary delay in performing a ‘flap lift’ to correct the ‘striae’ (corneal...
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