“Alarm has been raised at a move by the government that appears to give the Jackson reforms retrospective effect.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 12th March 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Metropolitan Police is set to pay up to £120,000 after armed officers left four innocent friends traumatised after a bungled stop and search operation.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Belgian cosmetic surgery clinic has been ordered by a British court to pay £100,000 in compensation to a woman left disfigured by a ‘botched’ facelift.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A council faces having to pay out tens of thousands of pounds after a park warden fell and injured himself while putting up health and safety signs.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2012
Source: www.telegrph.co.uk
“The Consulting Association, a shadowy organisation that compiled a list of ‘troublemakers’ — with the help of the security services — for Britain’s biggest building companies was closed four years ago. Only now can its 3,200 victims go to court and hope to win.”
The Guardian, 3rd March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Romain Brunot, 30, syphoned off 400 bottles of vintage Krug and 400 bottles of Belvedere vodka, including 28 six litre bottles, over a four year period from Moet Hennessey.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A six-year-old West Midland girl who suffered severe brain damage in a car crash involving a speeding driver has been awarded £5m compensation.”
BBC News, 23rd February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Home Office has paid compensation of more than £1m, plus £1m costs, in a case involving 40 child asylum seekers who were wrongly detained as adults, it has been reported.”
The Independent, 18th February 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“David Cameron will today pledge to end Britain’s ‘damaging compensation culture’ by tightening the rules on false whiplash claims that are driving up the cost of car insurance.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Ken Clarke can already refuse victims compensation for violent crimes if they are of bad character. Now he wants to ban anyone with an unspent conviction from applying.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Victims who suffer sprained ankles, broken toes or bruised ribs would no longer be entitled to compensation under Government plans, Kenneth Clarke said today.”
The Independent, 30th January 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former Cleveland Police officer who was wrongfully sent to prison has been awarded almost £400,000 after an 18-year legal fight.”
BBC News, 26th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Former Woolworths employees have been awarded a total of up to £67.8m in compensation, the shopworkers’ union Usdaw said on Friday.”
The Guardian, 20th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jude Law and Lord Prescott are among the latest people given payouts over phone hacking by the News of the World. Actor Law received the highest payout of £130,000 ($200,000). The ex-deputy PM got £40,000, the High Court heard. Sara Payne, mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah, and Shaun Russell, whose wife and daughter were murdered in 1996, were given undisclosed sums.”
BBC News, 19th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“John Kennedy followed his father’s wishes when he died, sharing the money from a compensation payout with the rest of the family, but he ended up in prison as a result.”
BBC News, 19th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A female plumber who glassed a man in a nightclub escaped a prison sentence after a judge accepted that years of sexual harassment at work had led her to erupt.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Four children who were incarcerated in detention centres for 13 months – the longest time children have ever been locked up in the UK – have won a six-figure compensation payout from the Home Office more than eight years after their release.”
The Guardian, 6th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers say Joel Mattsson, who was wrongly stopped by police from taking photographs at a public event in a town centre, has been compensated.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Rodríguez and Others v Air France SA (Case C-83/10); [2011] WLR (D) 348
“‘Cancellation’, in article 2(1) of Parliament and Council Regulation 261/2004/EC was not limited to the situation in which an aeroplane failed to take off at all, but also covered the case in which it took off but, for whatever reason, was subsequently forced to return to the airport of departure where the passengers were transferred to other flights. ‘Further compensation’ in article 12 of the Regulation allowed the national court to award compensation under the Montreal Convention for damage arising from breach of the contract of carriage by air. However that meaning was not the legal basis for the national court to order an air carrier to reimburse to passengers whose flight had been delayed or cancelled the expenses the latter had incurred because of the failure of that carrier to fulfil its obligations to assist and provide care under articles 8 and 9 of the Regulation.”
WLR Daily, 13th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An NHS Trust has been ordered to pay a man £12,500 in compensation for breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA) after a nurse unlawfully accessed a man’s medical records, Plymouth County Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
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