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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
30 March 2017
Thames Water receives record £20m fine for polluting rivers
On 22 March 2017, Thames Water was ordered to pay fines and costs amounting to over £20m for six separate water pollution incidents on the River Thames and its tributaries.
30 March 2017
The Great Repeal Bill and the regulation of law firms
We are still a long way from the finish line but at least with the publication of the Great Repeal Bill: White Paper (“the White Paper”) we have some clarity about the future course of UK domestic law. This blog by Iain Miller is directed at the position in relation to the regulation of law firms.
27 March 2017
High Court reaffirms that a Registrant’s regulatory history is relevant and admissible at the impairment and sanction stages
Mirtorabi v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2017] EWHC 476
1 March 2017
This was an appeal to the High Court by Fariba Mirtorabi (the Registrant) against a decision of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) Conduct and Competence Committee (CCC) to strike her off the Register of nurses.
21 March 2017
Pregnancy test drug Primodos to be reviewed by UK regulator following discovery of files in state archive
It has been reported this week that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been asked to conduct a thorough review into the pregnancy drug Primodos, which is now the subject of huge media interest. Over the past 48 hours, news outlets have been awash with stories about new evidence unearthed in relation to the use of Primodos, any links its usage had with babies later born with significant birth defects and questions over whether a cover-up has occurred.
17 March 2017
In the line of fire - Fire Authorities can and will prosecute for fire safety failings
R (on the application of London Borough of Southwark) and London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority and Health and Safety Executive [2016] EWHC 1701 (Admin)
