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Woman brain damaged by negligence highlights need for legal aid to remain
Nottingham City Hospital has agreed to pay a 24-year-old Nottingham woman a six figure compensation pay-out, after she was left with cerebral palsy due to alleged medical blunders made when she was a baby ( BBC ).The woman suffered catastrophic brain damage and will have severe learning...
Two New Traffic Commissioners
Two New Traffic Commissioners
Two new Traffic Commissioners have been appointed by the Secretary of State for Transport, Justine Greening, to replace Philip Brown and Tom Macartney, who both retired in October 2011.
Nick Denton (a civil servant at the Department for...
NHS cover up case highlights need for transparency
The case of seven-year-old Izabelle Easen is shocking and should be held up as a prime example of why honesty and transparency in the NHS is absolutely crucial, and why efforts to improve it need to move up the government's agenda. This story has come to light just days after the House of...
Wanted: A seat at the table
Last week, David Cameron sat down and met with members of the insurance industry at 10 Downing Street to thrash out a possible way of cracking down on the so-called compensation culture currently plaguing the country by seriously tackling whiplash claims.
The classic tea and biscuits...
Copying is the most sincere form of flattery....
We are not sure that some of our clients would agree. It was certainly not the first reaction of a recent designer client who saw their high end, bespoke designs being cheaply reproduced on the high street.
As you will know if you create designs, large amounts of time, effort and...
You never forget your wedding day...
Rarely does a reported case "have it all” in terms of twists, turns, drama and scandal. The judgment of Mr Justice Bodey in El Gamal v Al Maktoum has it in spades.
The parties were the chairman of Emirates Group (also the uncle of the current ruler of Dubai) and...
What will be the impact of ‘TripAdvisor’ reviews of hospitals?
An interesting study hit the headlines yesterday, which has found that patients are accurately predicting which hospitals have high death rates ( Telegraph ) in the form of TripAdvisor-style reviews. The research by Imperial College London showed that the hospitals that achieved good...
