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Enhancing Public Accountability: Key Elements of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill 2025
Kirsty Cook
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.
15 March 2023
Patient Safety Awareness Week
Despite ongoing improvements in patient safety, medical harm remains a leading cause of death worldwide, according to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). As a result, the institute is redoubling its efforts to highlight the problem during its annual event – Patient Safety Awareness Week – running from 12 – 18 March 2023.
27 September 2021
Proposed changes to the Highway Code: will they improve safety for cyclists and other vulnerable road users?
Over the summer, the government suggested changes to the Highway Code to improve road safety for vulnerable road users. If the proposals are approved, they will change how pedestrians, cyclists and motorists are expected to behave on Britain’s roads.
29 July 2020
Lady Brownlie successful in the Court of Appeal
Brownlie v FS Cairo (Brownlie No.2)
The Court of Appeal has today handed down its judgment by a 2-1 majority has rejected the Defendant’s jurisdiction challenge in this case.
22 June 2020
Living with a Spinal Injury
Sustaining a spinal injury is a life changing event. A variety of symptoms can present. For example, loss of limb function, sensory disturbance or loss of bowel and bladder function. This makes it essential that an individual who has suffered a spinal injury accesses specialist medical and rehabilitative treatment as soon as possible to achieve the best possible outcome.
