Legal News
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Posted 17/12/2009 The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (Ucatt) has voiced concerns that a government dossier advocating continuing the ban on compensation claims for pleural plaque victims is...
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Posted 28/03/2010 Small businesses in the UK are worried about their likelihood of insolvency should another recession occur. This was the discovery of recent research by trade organisation R3, which...
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Posted 22/02/2013 Ben Ward, a medical injury solicitor at Ashtons Legal, has obtained compensation for a woman in her 50s who suffered pain, and unsuccessful treatment, at the hands of...
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Posted 07/01/2014 The BBC has reported that nearly 12,000 people made more than ten visits to the same Accident & Emergency (A&E) unit in 2012-13. A small number of those,...
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Posted 07/05/2013 Sophie Bales, a medical injury solicitor at Ashtons Legal, has obtained an £8,000 settlement for a 40 year old woman who underwent cryotherapy to remove seven moles from...
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Posted 14/12/2009 Former Norwich City footballer Dean Ashton is considering making a compensation claim over the leg injury which forced him to retire at the age of 26. The England...
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Posted 25/03/2010 Young adults should not assume they do not need to make a Will, according to one financial expert. Making a Will can help to ensure a person’s assets...
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Posted 02/05/2013 The number of British women under 50 having breast cancer diagnosed annually has topped 10,000 for the first time according to Cancer Research UK.The charity says one case...
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Posted 18/12/2009 Workers with ethnic minority backgrounds may be increasingly threatened by redundancy as a result of the recession, according to new research. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)...
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Posted 06/12/2013 Ben Ward, a medical injury solicitor at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £50,000 in damages for Ms H, a 41 year old woman, for being misdiagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis...
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Posted 10/12/2009 A trade body has called on the government to do more to promote equity release to help older people cope with their increasingly diminished pension income. Safe Home...
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Posted 11/12/2009 A recent government decision to cut the amount of compensation paid to civil servants facing redundancy is to lead to legal and industrial action. The Public and Commercial...
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