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Suspension of the UK’s Refugee Family Reunion scheme: an afront to the principle of family unity
Oliver Oldman
2 December 2016
Thousands of low income families with disabled children were paid too little in tax credits
The story that broke last week that thousands of low income families with disabled children were paid up to £4,400 too little in tax credits (after data was not shared between the authorities) is pretty shocking http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38113279.
17 October 2016
Will a new scheme for Birth Injury Compensation work?
Jeremy Hunt is due to make a speech today which sets out proposals to offer compensation automatically to parents of still born or brain damaged children when those injuries have arisen because of substandard care.
6 October 2016
Kingsley Napley celebrates World Cerebral Palsy Day 2016
World Cerebral Palsy (CP) Day recently took place on 5 October 2016. To mark the occasion, members of the Kingsley Napley Clinical Negligence team attended an event hosted by the London Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy (a World CP day partner).
14 June 2016
Patient Safety: Do we have a culture of openness or secrecy when it comes to patient safety?
The government and the health service need to make this clear if future costly litigation is to be reduced.
25 April 2016
Child’s birth injury judgement highlights poor standards of medical record keeping
The recent decision of Mrs Justice McGowan in the case of FE (represented by his Litigation Friend PE) v. St Georges University Hospitals NHS Trust demonstrates the dangers run by Defendants in defending claims where the medical records and recording of notes is extremely poor.