Detainees win torture claims test case – BBC News
“Hundreds of people who were tortured before seeking asylum in the UK could seek compensation and release from immigration detention.”
BBC News, 17th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: compensation
Damages under section 13 DPA: Court of Appeal’s judgment in Halliday – Panopticon
“I blogged a while ago about the ex tempore judgment from the Court of Appeal in a potentially groundbreaking case on damages under section 13 of the DPA, namely Halliday v Creation Consumer Finance [2013] EWCA Civ 333. The point of potential importance was that ‘nominal damages’ appeared to suffice for the purposes of section 13(1), thereby opening up section 13(2). In short, the point is that claimants under the DPA cannot be compensated for distress unless they have also suffered financial harm. A ‘nominal damages’ approach to the concept of financial harm threatened to make the DPA’s compensation regime dramatically more claimant-friendly.”
Panopticon, 17th May 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
Trainee lawyer was denied permanent contract when she became pregnant – The Guardian
“A trainee lawyer is in line for compensation from a top City law firm after winning her case for discrimination after she missed out on a job because she was pregnant.”
The Guardian, 19th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Widower to receive £150,000 payout linked to wife’s death in Oxfordshire – BBC News
“A widower left with brain damage from alcohol abuse linked to the shock of his wife’s sudden death is to receive a £150,000 payout from the NHS.”
BBC News, 15th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Dental nurse wins case after being given written warning for eating apple – Daily Telegraph
“A dental nurse who was given a written warning by bosses for eating an apple has won a case for constructive dismissal against the surgery.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
WPc’s cut thumb will cost force £100,000 – Daily Telegraph
“Taxpayers were last night facing a legal bill of at least £100,000 after a long-standing compensation row involving a female police officer who cut her thumb while on duty.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Review into Riot Damages Act announced – Home Office
“The Riot Damages Act will be independently reviewed to ensure it protects the vulnerable and provides value for money, the government announced today.”
Home Office, 9th May 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Claimant lawyers hit out at government’s mesothelioma plan – Litigation Futures
“A government scheme designed to speed payments to mesothelioma sufferers could leave them thousands of pounds out of pocket and will not help other asbestos victims, according to claimant personal injury lawyers.”
Litigation Futures, 9th May 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Exclusive: Victims blame insurers for ‘insulting’ asbestos payouts – The Independent
“A new law intended to ensure insurance firms pay compensation when employers’ paperwork is lost will apply only to some cancer sufferers, and they will get less than expected.”
The Independent, 5th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Turning the tide on compensation culture – Ministry of Justice
“Major law changes are turning the tide on the growing compensation culture, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said today [1 May].”
Ministry of Justice, 1st May 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
Supreme court upholds payouts to prisoners over delayed parole hearings – The Guardian
“The UK supreme court has cut the compensation awarded to a life-sentence prisoner whose original release was delayed from £10,000 to £6,500, in a ruling that will nonetheless lead to payouts for scores of convicted murderers, rapists and other violent prisoners.”
The Guardian, 1st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Woman fined for ‘racist’ English insult
“A Welsh woman has been made to pay compensation for using a racist slur against an English woman after calling her ‘an English cow’.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Horsewoman who appeared in Queen’s Diamond Jubilee exaggerated injuries for compensation – Daily Telegraph
“A horsewoman who appeared in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee pageant exaggerated
injuries she suffered in a fall to try to win a big compensation pay-out, a
court heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Collette Elliot wins pay-out from Birmingham council – BBC News
“A woman is to receive compensation from a council after social services failed
to take her into care while she was being abused as a child.”
BBC News, 28th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Revealed: George Osborne’s secret veto on fraud inquiries – The Independent
“George Osborne has a secret veto over large and potentially politically sensitive fraud investigations, The Independent has learnt.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Court awards anonymity for victim of libellous “paedophile” allegations – UK Human Rights Blog
“The permanent damage that internet publications can inflict is very much the focus of Tugendhat J’s assessment of damages in this case, encapsulated in the memorable description he quoted in an earlier judgment: ‘what is to be found on the internet may become like a tattoo’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Santander mortgage customers to share million-pound compensation pot – The Guardian
“Up to 30,000 Santander mortgage customers are set to share millions of pounds in compensation after it emerged they may have lost out because of confusing letters sent by the bank more than four years ago.”
The Guardian, 19th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Jones) v First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) – WLR Daily
“Where a tribunal found that a person who had committed suicide had been reckless as to whether his action would also cause injury to some other person, and it had in fact done so an offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm contrary to section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 had been committed which was a ‘crime of violence’ entitling that other person to claim under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. However, the question as to what the offender had actually foreseen was for the First-tier Tribunal to answer, not an appellate court, which should not readily intervene in issues best left for determination by specialist appellate tribunals by classifying them as issues of law.”
WLR Daily, 17th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
