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New criminal sanctions: will they generate the cultural change required for a safer NHS? Examining the Government’s initial response to the Francis Report

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 2 2013

The Government has accepted some, but not all, of the recommendations made by Robert Francis QC to introduce new criminal law sanctions. While the

Withholding redundancy payments and unreasonable refusals of suitable alternative employment

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 8 2013

In the case of Readman v Devon PCT, Mrs Readman worked for the respondent PCT from 1985 to 2008 in community based nursing. She was ultimately

Court of Protection refuses permission for sterilisation of young woman with Down’s syndrome

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 8 2013

The Court of Protection has ruled that a "delightful, warm, engaging and affectionate" 21-year-old woman with Down's syndrome should not be

Dismissing employees following rejection of re-banding and pay protection

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 8 2013

The case of Sandford & Anor v Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust followed a decision by an NHS trust to re-band 22 employees

Overturning dismissals in internal appeal hearings

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 4 2013

In the case of Piper v Maidstone & Tunbridge NHS Trust, the NHS trust employer dismissed the claimant, who had been employed as a chaplain, for gross

Dismissals for breakdown in working relationships

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 7 2012

In a decision handed down on 19 July 2012 in the case of Sian Kerslake v North West London Hopsitals NHS, the High Court held that a Trust could proceed with an internal hearing to consider if a consultant should be dismissed for “some other substantial reason” (SOSR) where it was alleged that there had been a breakdown in the working relationship

Limitation and abuse of process

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 12 2008

Where a claimant begins a defective personal injury or clinical negligence claim within the three year limitation period, and then issues a second action outside that period which remedies the original defect, the court has a discretion under s33 Limitation Act 1980 to extend the limitation period (Horton v Sadler, in which the House of Lords departed from its previous decision in Walkley v Precision Forgings Ltd

Coroner breaches duty to send post mortem report to family

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 10 2010

On the 17 November 2010, a Judicial Review case, R (on the Application of McLeish) v Her Majesty's Coroner for the Northern District of Greater London (2010) was heard

Court decides anorexic woman should be force fed

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 11 2012

In the case of A Local Authority v E (2012), the Court of Protection decided that E, a 32-year-old anorexic woman, should be force-fed

What is a reasonable adjustment for disability discrimination purposes?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 3 2012

Reasonable adjustments (RAs) is a phrase which offers so much room for interpretation that it often finds itself the subject of deliberation in disability discrimination cases

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