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Grenfell Tower Tragedy – the known and the unknown

On 14th June 2017 Grenfell Tower caught alight when a fridge defaulted and started a fire. Whilst it is reasonable to expect fires to occur, the most shocking thing about...

August 2, 2017
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Grenfell Tower Disaster: What financial support will be provided to survivors both in the short and long term?

The tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire has left a community in mourning, with police investigators saying that their starting point is 80 deaths resulting from the fire. Hundreds more...

August 2, 2017
Opinion

The state of our prisons – light the blue touch paper…

The HM Chief Inspector of Prisons published his second annual report of the state of Prisons in England and Wales on 18th July 2017 and, within two weeks, of the...

August 2, 2017

Bríd Doherty

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Grenfell: Honest Answers and Rebuilding Trust

A few days after the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, a colleague and I were at the site, looking at the moving tributes, messages and flowers in memory of those...

August 2, 2017
Opinion

Charlie Gard and best interests’ decisions

There has been a great deal of press coverage of the sad case of Charlie Gard who was born with a very rare genetic disease causing progressive muscle weakness and...

July 31, 2017
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Grenfell – Corporate Manslaughter explained

As indicated in my previous blog, the Metropolitan Police have indicated that there is “reasonable grounds” for suspecting the TMO and the Council of committing the offence of Corporate Manslaughter....

July 28, 2017

Raj Chada

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Grenfell: Corporate Manslaughter announcement – the push for justice must go on

The letter sent yesterday by the Met that the council and Tenant Management Organisation may have committed corporate manslaughter is significant, but bearing in mind what is in the public...

July 28, 2017

Raj Chada

Opinion

The legacy of Ilott

On 18th July 2017, the first case to test the waters after the Supreme Court case of Ilott v The Blue Cross and others (2017), was handed down in Leeds...

July 26, 2017

Chun Wong

Opinion

The increasing benefit of Legal Expense Insurance

In recent years there has been a huge challenge on how the average person can afford legal services. Legal aid has been eradicated from most areas of law. Success fees...

July 24, 2017

Chun Wong

Opinion
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Frontiers in TBI – Traumatic Brain Injury – Conference – 13th July 2017: Potential Treatments

I recently attended the inaugural ‘Frontiers in Traumatic Brain Injury Conference‘ hosted at Imperial College. Dr Peter Jenkins (Imperial College London): ‘Stratifying treatment with methylphenidate’. He has undertaken research as to…

July 20, 2017

Anne Sanders

Opinion

Reform of clinical negligence claims

The recent proposals by the MDU and MPS to reform clinical negligence claims have featured in the legal press in recent weeks. The MPS in particular appears to have started...

July 13, 2017
Opinion

Contaminated Blood

It has been reported that an inquiry will be held into the "contaminated blood scandal", where NHS patients had been administered blood products which had been infected with hepatitis C...

July 12, 2017

Priya Singh

Opinion

Taking your victim as you find them: When pre-existing cancer kills the victim, but it’s still murder

The Paul Blueitt case is a reminder of how encompassing the law related to murder can be. The facts of the case were unusual and brutal. The victim was a...

July 12, 2017

Ruth Harris

Opinion

Action Mesothelioma Day 2017

For the past 17 years I’ve been helping patients with mesothelioma and other asbestos diseases, access state benefits, support and compensation. In that time, although there have been many legal...

July 7, 2017

Isobel Lovett

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On the frontline: After the horror of Grenfell, how can we best achieve justice and accountability?

The fire at the Grenfell Tower block on 14 June 2017 was the type of appalling tragedy that no-one would expect to happen in one of world’s richest countries in...

July 6, 2017
Opinion

Grenfell Tower fire – lax building regulations or complete disregard?

Following on from the tragic fire on 14th June 2017 at Grenfell Tower, which so far has claimed 80 innocent lives, it has been revealed that samples of cladding from...

July 4, 2017

Afiya Begum

Opinion

Hillsborough disaster – manslaughter by way of gross negligence

Former Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, the officer in charge of the match, is facing 95 charges of manslaughter by gross negligence. Many will ask what manslaughter by gross negligence means...

July 3, 2017

Raj Chada

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56,000 Metal-on-metal' hip implant patients recalled for tests over toxicity fears

I see that the MHRA ( Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) has issued another warning with regards to metal-on-metal” hip implants. This further Alert has been issued by the…

June 30, 2017
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Grenfell Tower Fire – the duties and responsibilities of landlords and others

The Local Authority (Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council) and contractors who carried out refurbishment work at the Tower last year (Rydon Construction) are facing serious questions as are the manufacturers...

June 30, 2017
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Deaths caused by negligence

No amount of money can compensate for the death of a loved one, following a fatal accident. Compensation can often however help and make a difference to a bereaved family,…

June 29, 2017
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