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Clinical negligence claims for NHS system failures

  • Anthony Gold Solicitors
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 16 2013

Three recent high-profile news stories are examples of how NHS system failures, not just substandard care by an individual health professional, may

Hospitals reveal hundreds of preventable medical blunders

  • Ashton KCJ
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 13 2013

Hospital Trusts have admitted to 750 preventable mistakes over the past four years, which include foreign objects being left inside patients and

Warwickshire Council fined £30k for fire fighter deaths

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 9 2013

In previous updates we have reported on the prosecutions arising from a blaze at a warehouse which led to the deaths of four fire fighters - John

Unsafe traffic management fatality leads to fines in excess of £500k

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 9 2013

Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Limited (BBIL) and Enterprise (AOL) Limited have been ordered to pay a total of £650k in fines and prosecution costs

Environment Agency prosecuted after fatal dredging operation

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • May 9 2013

The Environment Agency has been ordered to pay £200k following conviction under s 2(1) HSWA after an incident which led to the death of an employee

Railway guard who failed to act causing a teenager’s death jailed

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 9 2013

Christopher McGee was imprisoned for five years after being found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter following the death of 16 year old Georgia

Corporate manslaughter charges issued by the CPS

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 9 2013

In recent months, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has issued corporate manslaughter charges against four companies. PS & JE Ward runs Belmont

£12,500 settlement for man whose xrays were not interpreted correctly

  • Ashton KCJ
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2013

Ben Ward, a clinical negligence specialist at Ashton KCJ, has obtained £12,500 compensation for a man who had suffered serious injuries to his hand

Dr E.Y. v General Medical Council 2013 EWHC 860

  • Kingsley Napley
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 29 2013

The Claimant, Dr E.Y., applied to the High Court, under section 41A(10) of the Medical Act 1983, for an order terminating the conditional

Legal aid after LASPO

  • 1 Chancery Lane
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 29 2013

Until April 1st 2013, clinical negligence was the one area which was exempt from the general abolition of Legal Aid for claims relating to personal