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Anti-Bullying Week: Understanding the Legal and Cultural Risks
Emmanuelle Ries
12 September 2017
Is a mother giving birth a primary or secondary victim?
RE v Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Reference: [2017] EWHC 824 (QB)
17 August 2017
The All Mighty Brain- or is it?
The head and brain are such powerful machinery. We underestimate the amount of work the brain goes through to do simple actions such as lifting a finger or moving a leg. With billions of neurons making up the brain (yes, billions!) it is quite ironic how fragile it actually is. Are we doing enough to protect our greatest tool or are we misled to believe it is all powerful and indestructible?
7 March 2017
The importance of exhibitions like Naidex
I am pleased that Kingsley Napley will be attending Naidex again this year. As someone who attended the exhibition last year and took the time to walk around the exhibition hall, I left with a sense of admiration for the pace of technological and medical advances for those who have a disability.
27 February 2017
Setting the Discount Rate and Achieving Fairness for Victims of Accidents
This morning, the Lord Chancellor Liz Truss announced that she is changing the discount rate from 2.5% to minus 0.75%.
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.