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Accountancy regulators confront AI cheating in exams
Zoe Beels
11 August 2017
Coping with brain injury: The impact of acquired brain injury on families and caregivers
The impact and consequences of an acquired brain injury (ABI) can reach far beyond the injured survivor. Relationships and family roles can be instantly and dramatically changed and no family unit can ever be truly prepared to deal with an ABI, especially when it occurs through someone else’s fault.
7 August 2017
Central Cord Syndrome
The spinal cord relays information from the brain to the rest of the body, and sends signals about the rest of the body to the brain. If the spinal cord is damaged, messages travelling from the brain to the rest of the body are disrupted and can result in a loss of sensation and movement from below the point of injury.
31 July 2017
Medical Negligence & Personal Injury quarterly newsletter - 2nd quarter 2017
The second quarter of 2017 has continued to be busy in the field of medical negligence. The Ministry of Justice consultation on fixed costs, coupled with Lord Justice Jackson's wider review on costs in civil litigation, remain outstanding. Further details on fixed costs are expected by the end of July 2017 although Lord Justice Jackson has indicated that a pilot scheme will be adopted in respect of claims worth up to £80,000 (significantly this excludes clinical/medical negligence cases).
25 July 2017
Kingsley Napley Clinical Negligence team attends the RDA National Championships
Bridget Hughes, Kirsty Allen, Suzanne Farg and I attended the Riding for the Disabled Charity’s National Championships last weekend, at Hartpury College. Kingsley Napley were one of the proud sponsors of the event and we went along with open minds and a sense of intrigue about what to expect.
24 July 2017
Types of Spinal Cord Injuries
Over the past few weeks our blogs have looked at spinal and back anatomy and the common causes of spinal cord injury. This blog looks at the types of spinal cord injury that can occur and provides a summary of the 6 clinical syndromes all of which present in a slightly different way.