HJA in the news
Hodge Jones & Allen in the news
By the very nature of the radical law Hodge Jones & Allen
practices, it is a firm on the front line of legal change, of human
rights and of public interest. Below is a selection of recently
published features, articles and quotes from team members in each
practice area.
HJA cases in the news and editorial contributions from
solicitors
4.7 million brain injury settlement for Ryan St George
Philippa Vaughan wins '1st wife' divorce settlement from Barrister
husband
Chilcot enquiry Snatch Land Rover deaths in Afghanistan
G20 Space Hijackers
Inmates claim compensation for salmonella
poisoning
Jackson Report on revision of civil litigation
Soldier
denied council housing
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Personal injury,
Clinical negligence,
Housing law, Wills & Probate,
Crime and
Fraud, Family law and Civil liberties.
PERSONAL
INJURY
Cervical cancer jab, Sunday Express,
20 September 2009
Article:
Care threat to girl 'left disabled by cancer jab' (by Lucy
Johnston)
Comment by:
Peter Todd
Food poisoning claims, Caterer &
Hotelkeeper, 25 September 2009
Article:
Victims of norovirus to sue Blumenthal (by Kerstin
Kühn)
Comment by:
Peter Todd
Cervical Cancer jab, The Sunday Times, 4 October
2009
Article:
What has this cervical cancer jab done to our girls? (by
Daniel Foggo & Rosie
Millard)
Comment by:
Peter Todd
Cervical Cancer jab, Mail Online, 4
October 2009
Article:
The worries over the cervical cancer jab and the questions that
must be answered (by Barbara Davies), Comment
by:
Peter Todd
Training Contracts, Solicitor's
Journal, 13 October 2009
Article: Working it out,
Comment by:
Peter Todd
Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer, The
Times, 12 November 2009
Article:
Whatever happened to the radical lawyer? (by Jon
Robins)
Comment by:
Patrick Allen
Litigation funding, Litigation
Funding, December issue
Article: Take a chance on us, Comment by:
Peter Todd
Lord Justice Jackson's
report, Law Society Gazette, 21 January 2010
Article:
More debate is needed about Lord Justice Jackson's proposed
reforms
Comment by:
Patrick Allen
HMP Wandsworth food
poisoning, The Sun, 23 February 2010
Article:
250 lags sue for £500k over fowl egg sarnies Comment
by:
Simon O'Loughlin
MoJ's salmonella 'breach of
duty', Your Local Guardian, 14 July 2010
Article: Ministry
of Justice admits 'breach of duty' after Wandsworth Prison
salmonella outbreak Comment by:
Simon O'Loughlin
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CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE
Ryan St George settlement, Daily Mail,
14 April 2010
Article:
Prisoner brain-damaged after falling out of bunk bed wins £4.7
million damages Also cover in:
Daily Telegraph
and BBC
online Comment by:
Jacqui Hayat
HOUSING
LAW
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Curing Conflict, Inside
Housing, 24 November 2009
Article: Could
tougher regulation reduce legal disputes between housing
associations and tenants? Written
by Siddiq
Fazaluddin
Dry rot claim win against council, Ham & High / Wood
& Vale Express, 3 Dec
2009
Article: Payout for woman living with dry
rot (by Tan Parsons)
Comment by:
Daniel Fitzpatrick
Tenants litigation, Public
Service (PS), 22 February 2010
Article: EXCLUSIVE: Litigation
may still be the best option for unhappy tenants
Written by Siddiq
Fazaluddin
Housing legal opinion, Housing
News, 3 March 2010
Article: Legal Opinion:
The Disability Act, Animals and Tenancy
Agreements Written by
Siddiq Fazaluddin
Meeting the housing needs of
people diagnosed with HIV without prejudice, Inside
Housing, 23 March 2010
Article: A
delicate balance (written by Sophie
Bell)
Cost of Living, Inside Housing, 27 April
2010
Article: Cost
of Living Written by
Satvir Sahota
Discriminatory eviction, 24 Housing, April
2010 issue
Article: Court
of Appeal rules on discriminatory eviction
ruling Written by
Siddiq Fazaluddin
Housing needs for HIV suffers, PublicNet, 14
May 2010
Article: Critical
Housing needs for HIV suffers (written by Sophie
Bell)
Homeless for 16 and 17 year olds, Inside
Housing, 25 May 2010
Article: From
pillar to post (written by Hannah
Britz)
Local Housing incentives, 24
Housing, 8 June 2010
Article: Shapps:
'Powerful incentives not meaningless targets key to building more
homes (by Jon Land)
Comment by:
Daniel Fitzpatrick
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PRIVATE
CLIENT
Living Wills, The Daily Telegraph
(print & online), 7 October 2009
Article:
Bishops: legal rules could present repeat of Kerrie Wooltorton
'living will' suicide (by John Bingham),
Comment by:
Hannah Bunting
Criticism of the RSPCA over
inheritance tax, Times Online, 11 February
2010
Article name: RSPCA
criticised for demanding inheritance tax payment (by
Laura Whateley)
Comment by:
Sarah Cooper
Wills, Fresh Business
Thinking, 17 March 2010
Article name:
Leaving your Business in a
Will Written by:
Sarah Cooper
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CRIMINAL DEFENCE & SERIOUS FRAUD
Justice System, Law Society's
Gazette, 16 July 2009
Article:
Serious concerns are raised with the first non-jury criminal
trial Written by:
Raj Chada
G20 Demonstrators, BBC
Online, 4 September 2009
Article: G20
demonstrators appear in Court (by BBC Online),
Comment by:
Raj Chada
JJB Sports in price-fixing
probe, Bloomberg, The Globe &
Mail, 10 September 2009
Article:
JJB, Sports Direct raided by fraud, Antitrust Offices (by
Lindsay Fortado and Jonathan Browning),
Comment by:
Raj Chada
Sentencing for bribing foreign
officials in Iraq, The Times, 24 September 2009
Article:
Mabey & Johnson to be sentenced for bribery case (by
Michael Herman)
Comment by:
Raj Chada
Online fraudsters target students,
Guardian / The Observer / Tiscali, 27 Sept 2009
Article:
Property fraudsters target students & tourists in London
letting scam (by Jamie Elliott and Graham Norwood),
Comment by:
Raj Chada
G20 Space Hijackers, The Sunday
Times, 27 September 2009
Article:
Black bra, red stockings: is that a fair cop? (by David Leppard)
Comment by:
Raj Chada
Cannabis, Wall
Street Journal / Cannabis
Weekly, 27 November 2009
Article: Another
thing Europe doesn't agree on (by Javier
Espinoza)
Comment by:
Daniel Godden
Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC)
business fines, The Times, 10 February 2010
Article: Corporate
manslaughter fines to reach millions (by Michael Herman)
Comment by:
Raj Chada
Global corruption index, Growth
Business, 23 February 2010
Article name: Corruption
in Corporate Britain, Comment by:
Raj Chada
Bribery Bill, The Times, 31
March 2010
Article: Will
the Bribery Bill ever become law? (by Edward
Fennell)
Comment by:
Raj Chada
Jury-less criminal trials, Growth
Business, 1 April 2010
Article: High
cost of protection is eroding legal bastion (by Frances
Gibb)
Comment by:
Joseph Wright
Goldman Sachs boss charged with fraud,
The Telegraph, 17 April 2010
Article: Goldman
case breathes life back into the blame game (by James
Quinn and Helia Ebrahimi)
Comment by:
Raj Chada
Bloody Sunday, News Talk, 15
June 2010
Article: Bloody
Sunday families to meet Protestant leaders
Comment
by:
Raj Chada
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FAMILY
LAW
Divorce, Wealth Bulletin, 20
August 2009
Article:
In sickness and in wealth (by Tara Loader
Wilkinson)
Comment by:
Toby Hales
Divorce rates, Financial
Times, 25 September 2009
Article:
Will divorce carve up firm? (by Jonathan Moules),
Comment by:
Victoria Walker
Russian divorce, Money Market, October
2009
Article: High profiles Russian divorce case,
Comment by:
Farhana Shahzady
Family courts and the media, The
Daily Telegraph, 18 November 2009
Article:
Family Courts prepare to open their doors (by
Cassandra Jardine)
Comment by:
Toby Hales
Philippa Vaughan successful divorce settlement, April 1
2010
Article:
Barrister's ex-wife awarded payout 25 years after divroce,
Comment by:
Toby Hales
Cheryl Cole "quickie" divorce, The Press
Association, 27 May 2010
Article: Cheryl Cole
files for divorce from Ashley (by The Press
Association)
Comment by:
Toby Hales
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CIVIL LIBERTIES
Snatch Land Rovers and the MoD
Comments by:
Jocelyn
Cockburn
Article:
Soldier's mother launches legal challenge,
(telegraph.co.uk, 10 July 2009)
Article:
Soldier's mother wins court fight over Snatch Land Rover (by
Frances Gibb, times online, 11 July 2009)
Article: TIMES FRONT PAGE
EXCLUSIVE Families
of dead troops ask Chilcot to confront Brown (by
Deborah Haynes, The Times, 4 March 2010)
MoD appeal against landmark ruling, Hawick
News, 24 July 2009
Article name: Launch of new appeal stuns mum of Iraq
death soldier (by Hawick News)
Comment by:
Jocelyn Cockburn
Baranovsky Prison Death Inquest
Comments by:
Jocelyn Cockburn
Article: Rye Hill 'learn
lessons' but inmate's family want apology for tragic death,
Daventry Express, 1 October 2009
Article:
The death of prisoner Baranovsky (by Charlotte Rowles, The
Independent on Sunday, 11 October 2009)
Police Officer spared jail, BBC
website, 4 March 2010
Article: Sex-On-Duty
Metropolitan Police officer spared jail (by
BBC)
Comment by:
Sasha Barton
Soldiers' human rights, 16 March
2010
Article: Giving soldiers human rights in war zones
'will hamper battlefield commanders' (by Deborah
Haynes, The
Times) Also covered in BBC online,
Guardian,
Metro
Comment by:
Jocelyn Cockburn
Soldier denied council housing, The
Times, 4 April 2010
Article: War
hero last in line for council home (by David
Leppard)
Comment by:
Jocelyn Cockburn
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