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Posted 12/05/2011 A man who was severely brain-damaged in a car accident has been awarded personal injury compensation totalling £3.6 million by a court in Liverpool. Andrew Chin, aged 39,...
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Posted 12/05/2013 Hospital Trusts have admitted to 750 preventable mistakes over the past four years, which include foreign objects being left inside patients and cases of surgery on the wrong...
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Posted 17/03/2010 A woman who insists that she was sacked from her job as a high-flying executive because she was pregnant is seeking compensation with the assistance of her lawyers....
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Posted 02/12/2009 A woman has called for greater responsibility in the hairdressing industry after winning her £2,000 compensation claim against a salon. Charlotte Gilchrist took legal action against her hairdresser...
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Posted 06/06/2011 A man who launched a personal injury claim against supermarket Asda after he slipped on a grape in its Peterborough store has been awarded more than £10,000. It...
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Posted 05/06/2011 Firms hoping not to fall foul of employment law regulations regarding health and safety in the workplace may like to consider bringing in outside help if they are...
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Posted 08/03/2010 Business owners could be putting themselves at risk of breaching employment law by discriminating against potential candidates based on ethnicity and other factors. New research by Milkround.com found...
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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 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 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 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 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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