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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
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.
7 August 2014
The law on psychiatric injury for secondary victims - unfair and in need of a change
In April 1989 ninety six Liverpool fans were killed, and many hundreds more injured in the Hillsborough Stadium disaster. In the 25 years since then the friends and families of the victims have been campaigning for justice, and it is hoped that the new inquests into the deaths, which began in March of this year will, finally, shine a clear light into what went wrong.