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Child abuse is a scourge on society, and with the right legal advice, victims can secure just compensation for the frequently dire impact it has on their lives. In one case, a young man who was repeatedly molested by a neighbour when he was very young was...
A surgeon has been struck off for putting his own financial interests before the good of his patients. Bobby Qureshi cultivated a high media profile as an eye expert and featured his patients the actress June Brown, of EastEnders, and socialite Lady Annabel...
The parents of a 10-year-old who died in 1992 after contracting HIV through contaminated blood products have told an inquiry that the government had known that blood products had been contaminated but had "done nothing.” Colin and Denise...
A coroner has criticised an NHS trust over how it treated a schizophrenic drug addict who stabbed a man to death in a Poundland store. Trevor Joyce attacked Justin Skrebowski with a knife from the shop in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in December 2015. ...
A national review has been ordered into "significant failings" at a former mental health trust dating back more than a decade. The parliamentary and health service ombudsman found care shortcomings by the former North Essex Partnership University...
A former director of the now-dissolved landscaping and concrete company, RK United, has been sentenced for safety breaches after a worker suffered life-changing injuries in an incident in Leeds. Leeds Crown Court heard that on 25 August 2016, a worker at RK...
GPs work under great pressure but, where they make negligent mistakes that cause injury to patients, it is only right that compensation is paid. In one case, a man with a heart condition who suffered a catastrophic faint after his doctor failed to refer him...
A civil engineering company was fined £75,000 with £24,482.80 costs after a worker was crushed to death between a digger and a dumper on a Sheffield building site. Sheffield Crown Court heard that in December 2014, RMB Contractors, of...
A coroner’s investigation into the death of a Scottish teenager has found significant failings in her care at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Amy Allan, from Dalry, North Ayrshire, was 14 when she died in September 2018 following spine surgery at the...
The ever-increasing cost of professional care, combined with low returns on capital investments, have necessarily led to an escalation in the value of damages awards to victims of clinical negligence. The point was underlined by a case in which a...
