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Accountancy regulators confront AI cheating in exams
Zoe Beels
3 June 2015
Consulting Dr Google - A Friend or Foe?
In this increasingly tech-savvy age, it has become common to “google” one’s symptoms. For many of us, consulting the virtual Dr Google has become the first port of call for medical information. A recent Australian study by the Queensland University of Technology titled ‘'Dr. Google' doesn't know best: Search engine self-diagnosis and 'cyberchondria', has shown that 5% of all monthly Google searches are now health related; this equates to approximately five billion monthly searches.
2 June 2015
Spinal injury – why the 2007 Rehabilitation Code must change
As a claimant clinical negligence solicitor I see first-hand the impact a spinal injury can have on an individual’s life. Coming to terms with such a life changing event is difficult and not made any easier by the state’s inability to provide immediate and on-going rehabilitation.
21 May 2015
Children unlawfully killed in Corfu hotel - should Thomas Cook be compensated?
Last week a Coroner’s Inquest ruled that the children of Neil Shepherd and Sharon Wood had been unlawfully killed whilst on a 2006 holiday in a Thomas Cook hotel in Corfu, and that Thomas Cook had breached its duty of care towards the family. Christi, 7 and Bobby, 6 died from carbon monoxide poisoning that leaked into their bungalow from a faulty boiler. Their father and his second wife were also hospitalised.
8 April 2015
Insult and injury - how much is 'fair' compensation?
Last night, I read two very different stories in the London Evening Standard. The first was in relation to an unfair dismissal claim from a banker, and a good example of our justice system working well. The other story told of a young boy who died in a workplace accident, and left me feeling very frustrated with the limitations of our legal system.
5 March 2015
Can I litigate without publicity? - Anonymity in personal injury and clinical negligence claims
A recent Court of Appeal decision has made it easier for children and “protected parties” (adults who lack mental capacity to conduct their affairs) to have their identity protected when settling a claim for personal injury or clinical negligence.