Carlisle Maternity Hospital errors: Boy awarded £7.9m – BBC News
“A Cumbria boy who was left severely disabled by hospital blunders during his birth has been awarded £7.9m in damages at the High Court.”
BBC News, 7th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: compensation
Anger at £70,000 payout to cleared Damilola Taylor suspects – Daily Telegraph
“The family of the murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor have criticised as ‘insulting’ a £70,000 payout to two youths who were tried but cleared of the killing.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Gatwick officer gets £100,000 over asylum seeker bite – BBC News
“A custody officer who was bitten on the face by an HIV positive asylum seeker has been awarded more than £100,000 compensation.”
BBC News, 31st May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Liverpool Women’s concedes incontinence negligence cases – BBC News
“A hospital being sued by hundreds of women, who claim their incontinence was made worse by a surgeon, has admitted liability or agreed to pay compensation in 50% of claims processed so far.”
BBC News, 29th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
MoD sued over missing Iraqi boy – The Guardian
“The father of a 13-year-old Iraqi boy who has been missing since 2003 after being treated in a British military hospital has begun legal action against the Ministry of Defence demanding compensation and a public inquiry.”
The Guardian, 23rd May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Career-long compensation should be rare, says Court of Appeal – OUT-LAW.com
“A company does not have to compensate an employee it has unfairly dismissed for loss of earnings spanning the remainder of the worker’s career if there is a chance the worker could get a job on the same salary in the future, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Property title fraud costs Land Registry £26m in compensation – The Guardian
“The Land Registry, the government department that logs land and property ownership in England and Wales, has paid out more than £26m since 2006 compensating victims of a recurring property fraud.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Adams) v Secretary of State for Justice (JUSTICE and another intervening)- WLR Daily
Regina (Adams) v Secretary of State for Justice (JUSTICE and another intervening); In re MacDermott’s and McCartney’s Applications for Judicial Review (JUSTICE intervening) [2011] UKSC 18; [2011] WLR (D) 155
“A miscarriage of justice, within the meaning of section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, occurred where a new fact so undermined the evidence against the defendant that no conviction could possibly be based upon it.”
WLR Daily, 11th may 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed
Supreme court ruling redefines miscarriages of justice – The Guardian
“Two men from Northern Ireland whose convictions for murder during the Troubles were quashed following the emergence of fresh evidence are entitled to compensation, the supreme court has ruled.”
The Guardian, 11th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court to rule on miscarriage of justice payouts – BBC News
“The UK Supreme Court is due to rule on whether compensation should be more widely available for people who have been wrongfully convicted.”
BBC News, 11th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Boy wins £4.6m pay-out from King’s Lynn NHS Trust – BBC News
“A six-year-old boy left disabled after ‘wholly avoidable delays’ at birth has won £4.6m in compensation.”
BBC News, 9th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Failure to spot blood clots costs the NHS millions – Daily Telegraph
“The NHS has paid £112 million in compensation over the past five years after doctors failed to spot deadly blood clots, according to research.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
British Bankers’ Association v Financial Services Authority and another – WLR Daily
“The Financial Services Authority was not contrained by the existence of statutory powers in section 404 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 from using other powers to deal with what it perceived as the widespread mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) policies by banks. Neither the language of section 404 itself nor its role as part of the overall regulatory framework could warrant the implication in it of a restriction on all other powers merely because the circumstances warranting the operation of a section 404 scheme were satisfied.”
WLR Daily, 20th April 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
UK banks lose payment protection insurance challenge – BBC News
“UK banks have lost a judicial review that could have a major impact on whether more compensation has to be paid on mis-sold loan insurance..”
BBC News, 20th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Law Commissions call for new law to be written to give consumers right to compensation – OUT-LAW.com
“A new law should be created giving consumers the right to take misleading and aggressive businesses to court, the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission have said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th April 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Essex arrest error woman gets pay-out from police – BBC News
“A woman has received compensation from Essex Police after a series of errors led to her being arrested and imprisoned.”
BBC News, 12th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Jones v First-tier Tribunal – WLR Daily
Jones v First-tier Tribunal [2011] EWCA Civ 400; [2011] WLR (D) 131
“An offence of inflicting grevious bodily harm, contrary to section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, was a ‘crime of violence’ for the purposes of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2001.”
WLR Daily, 12th April 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
NHS faces £85.8m compensation bill over maternity blunders – The Guardian
“The NHS is facing a spiralling bill for blunders made by maternity-unit staff during labour that result in a baby dying or suffering brain damage or disability, the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 14th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Consumer Redress for Misleading and Aggressive Practices – Law Commission
“The consultation invites views on reforming the law for consumers on redress for misleading and aggressive commercial practices.”
Law Commission, 12th April 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission
Price of suing the NHS too high – The Guardian
“Suing the NHS for medical negligence may become too costly in the wake of cuts to both legal aid and lawyers’ success fees.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
