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Don’t shake the buckets please – Spinal Injuries Association

Riffat Yaqub alongside other members of the Personal Injury Team at Hodge Jones and Allen donned some red t-shirts and spent a few hours at Euston Square underground station raising...

December 16, 2016

Riffat Yaqub

Opinion

Love at Christmas?

The dynamic between different family units living side by side in shared temporary accommodation is something one does not often see. Even as homelessness solicitors at Hodge Jones & Allen,...

December 16, 2016

Opinion

Sending damages to vulnerable clients or those receiving benefits – the risks and pitfalls

Most personal injury practitioners will at some time or another act for vulnerable clients such as those with head injuries, learning disabilities or mental illness. Whilst these clients may have...

December 15, 2016

Blog

Learning, candour and accountability – a report by the Care Quality Commission

A year after a review commissioned by NHS England uncovered failings at Southern Health Foundation Trust, the Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’) has looked into how acute, community and mental health...

December 13, 2016

Emma Wray

Blog

Asbestos exposure in schools – a family’s story

You couldn’t fail to by moved today when listening to Jenny Murray’s interview with Lucy Stephens, daughter of Sue Stephens, who sadly died aged 68 in June this year as...

December 9, 2016

Isobel Lovett

Blog

Landmark inheritance case set for the Supreme Court

Next week, for the first time, the Supreme Court will hear a case under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (‘the 1975 Act’). The case relates to…

December 9, 2016

Nicola Waldman

Blog

Questions about cause of death – gaining answers from an inquest

Losing a loved one is a very difficult and traumatic. In some cases, where the cause of death is uncertain or unnatural, an inquest must be held. What is an...

December 8, 2016

Opinion

Every part of the criminal justice system needs to change – and that includes defence lawyers

The emerging findings from David Lammy MP’s review should make all of us who work in the criminal justice system pause to reflect. It is not that the statistics are...

December 6, 2016

Raj Chada

Opinion

Harassment and unlawful evictions… a solicitor’s view

It is an offence for a landlord to engage in behaviour or an activity, or encourage others to do so which could force a tenant to leave a property or...

December 6, 2016

Blog

Locating an abducted child

It is frequently the case that where a child has been abducted into the jurisdiction of England and Wales from a country that is a signatory to the Hague Convention...

November 30, 2016

Opinion

Treatment of prisoners serving unjust IPP sentences in need of urgent review

Last week the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, called on Justice Secretary Liz Truss to "get a grip" on the backlog of prison inmates being held beyond their sentence,...

November 28, 2016

Claire Brigham

Opinion

Surely it’s time for the introduction of non-fault based divorces!

This week has been dubbed ‘Good Divorce Week 2016’ by Resolution, an organisation of approximately 6,500 family lawyers and other professionals in England and Wales who believe in a constructive,...

November 28, 2016

Opinion

Does race discrimination still exist in housing?

The Human City Institute published a report Forty Years of Struggle: A Window on Race and Housing, Disadvantage and Exclusion on 20th October 2016. The report highlights that legislative changes...

November 25, 2016

Opinion

Digitalisation of the family courts for financial cases

It is widely acknowledged and as set out in Hodge Jones & Allen's Unjust Kingdom report (2015) that "the justice system requires faster modernisation". One way of achieving of this...

November 21, 2016

Opinion

Government inquiry into the funding crisis in adult social care

Local Authorities have a statutory duty to assist people who by reason of age, illness or disability are in need of care. This is generally known as adult social care...

November 21, 2016

Blog

Duty of Candour fails again

News that an inquest into the death of a newborn baby has been adjourned after a midwife stated that evidence had been removed from her witness statement by an NHS...

November 18, 2016

Emma Wray

Blog

High court allows a request for a body to be frozen after death.

The High Court has just decided that the body of teenage girl who died of cancer should be cryogenically frozen - the first case to deal with the subject of...

November 18, 2016

Opinion

Should insurance companies be allowed to access people’s social media profiles?

In the last week, Facebook has blocked the motor insurer Admiral from accessing users profiles in order to help set car insurance premiums via a new app. Admiral had planned...

November 18, 2016

Emma Hall

Opinion

The Benefit Cap 2.0

On 7 November 2016 a new benefit cap began rolling out across the country, and will affect all areas by 23 January 2017. The new benefit cap is an extension…

November 18, 2016

Blog

The “secretive” Court of Protection

The Court of Protection (COP) is relatively new to the legal system and was established via the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and started operating in October 2007. The COP specialises...

November 17, 2016

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