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Change is in the air
1 April 2013 saw the coming into force of a huge raft of new laws affecting many aspects of family law. Benefits changes and the piloting of the "universal credit” scheme have been heavily publicised. Perhaps of most interest and concern to those going through a family...
Standard reports young girl was left paralysed in all limbs following surgery blunders
A 13-year-old girl has been left paralysed in all four limbs after routine surgery on her spine went horribly wrong, the London Evening Standard reported today.
Rebecca Ling can now only breathe with a ventilator after mistakes made in an operation to correct a curve in her spine at the...
Legal aid bill passes through House of Lords
On Tuesday evening the controversial Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill was passed by the House of Lords, although they have made significant amendments along the way. Once it becomes law, many people on modest incomes will no longer qualify for legal aid if they want to...
Government pushing for insurance to replace legal aid
The Guardian has claimed that government ministers are pushing for people to take out insurance to cover them for catastrophic events, such as injury from medical errors, as a replacement for legal aid. The Guardian article states that it has seen a note from civil servants in...
Ken Clarke ignorant of true impact of legal aid cuts
Last week I was once again frustrated to hear justice secretary Ken Clarke's apparent ignorance of the impact of his savage cuts to legal aid.
Clarke was interviewed by BBC Radio 4's Today programme, when he controversially commented that the government is not taking legal aid away from...
Doctors overpaid millions for patients that don’t exist
At a time when the government is pushing through cuts to the legal aid system that would mean medical negligence victims are no longer eligible, it was shocking to read that GPs have been overpaid hundreds of millions of pounds ( Telegraph ).
It has been reported this morning that...
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...
