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Enhancing Public Accountability: Key Elements of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill 2025
Kirsty Cook
27 February 2024
Sodium Valproate – the future of claims and compensation
Sodium valproate (brand names include Epilim and Depakote) is a drug to treat epilepsy, bipolar disorder and migraines which, if taken in pregnancy, is associated with a significant risk of birth defects and developmental disorders often known as Fetal Valproate Syndrome (FVS).
15 August 2023
Compensating for ‘lost years’ – It’s time to iron out the inconsistencies
Claiming compensation for ‘lost years’ within cases for personal injury and clinical negligence is an area which many find highly confusing. As it stands the law allows adult and adolescent claimants to recover compensation for sums they would have earned had they not been injured and their life expectancy reduced.
5 June 2023
Who cares for the carers?
According to Carers UK, 1 in 8 of us are providing unpaid care for family and friends.
11 December 2019
Supporting disabled parents
Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was quoted on the BBC Sport website on 9 December 2019, regarding the negative attitudes which she experienced as a disabled woman while pregnant. The article explains that when pregnant with her daughter in 2001, she experienced intrusive questions from strangers and came up against an attitude that she should not have children because of her condition.
3 December 2019
Unequal healthcare for patients with learning disabilities
BBC News recently featured a video highlighting one family’s struggle to ensure that the avoidable death of their loved one, Paul Ridd, never happens again. Paul Ridd’s death in 2009 at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital was found by an inquest to have been contributed to by the hospital’s neglect.