‘A “cunning and clever” woman has been found guilty of murdering her girlfriend’s toddler daughter after being caught on CCTV “terrorising” the child when she was left to babysit.’
The Guardian, 14th December 2021
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‘A couple whose child died in the womb after mistakes by maternity staff have received a £2.8m settlement.’
BBC News, 6th December 2021
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‘A father and his partner have been found guilty of the killing of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2021
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‘A teenager has been jailed for 16 years for murdering a 16-year-old boy outside a school in a revenge killing.’
BBC News, 30th November 2021
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‘Child abusers in England and Wales could face life in jail under tougher sentencing plans unveiled by ministers.’
BBC News, 30th November 2021
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‘The wife of a former soldier has been found guilty of the murder of her newborn baby by abandoning him in woodland after she discovered she was pregnant too late to have an abortion.’
The Independent, 30th November 2021
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‘Concerns were raised in 2010 over a former landfill site which later became the focus of a dispute over a seven-year-old’s death, it has emerged.’
BBC news, 22nd November 2021
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‘The father of a baby boy who died after suffering “horrific” head injuries has been found guilty of his murder.’
BBC News, 26th October 2021
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‘A terror convict who allegedly “groomed” the Manchester Arena bomber will refuse to ask questions if he is ordered to give evidence at the public inquiry into the attack.’
The Independent, 15th October 2021
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘There were not enough maternity staff to keep mothers and babies safe at a hospital trust at the centre of a baby deaths scandal, inspectors have found.’
BBC News, 15th October 2021
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‘A school’s failure to sufficiently monitor the internet activity of an autistic teenage girl “contributed” to her suicide, a coroner has concluded.’
The Independent, 7th October 2021
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‘Authorities’ failure to share details about a man before he murdered a girl in his partner’s care “contributed” to her death.’
BBC News, 5th October 2021
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‘The teenage mother who left her 20-month-old daughter to starve to death while she partied in London and Coventry has been jailed for nine years.’
The Independent, 7th August 2021
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‘A company has been fined £6.5m after an 11-year-old boy was electrocuted at a rail depot, a regulator said.’
BBC News, 1st August 2021
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‘In R v (1) AH Ltd and (2) Mr SJ, the appellants sought leave from the Court of Appeal to challenge the reverse evidential and legal burdens of proof to establish the “reasonably practicable” defence pursuant to s40 HSWA1974. Although permission to appeal was ultimately refused, the reasoning behind the decision is important reading for health and safety practitioners in the context of increasingly vigorous prosecutions.’
Henderson Chambers, 9th July 2021
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‘A mother who killed her one-month-old baby when she was “angry and stressed” over a row with her partner has been jailed.’
BBC News, 22nd July 2021
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‘The focus of this judgment was on the jurisdiction, if any, that the High Court Family Division has to maintain a Reporting Restriction Order (‘RRO’) prohibiting the naming of any medical clinicians as being involved in the care and treatment of a child who had been the subject of “end of life” proceedings before the High Court prior to their death, and where an RRO had been made at that time preventing the identification of any of the treating clinicians and staff until further order.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th July 2021
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‘An investigation into baby deaths at Furness general hospital in Barrow between 2004 and 2013 found a “lethal mix” of failings at almost every level.’
The Guardian, 6th June 2021
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‘A former Greater Manchester Police officer is being investigated by a watchdog over his evidence at a public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bomb.’
BBC News, 5th July 2021
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‘A woman who wrapped her newborn baby in plastic bags and left her to die on farmland has lost an appeal against her murder conviction.’
BBC News, 29th June 2021
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