“Shaaira Alexis unwittingly drank blackboard cleaning fluid after the schoolgirl sneaked into her classroom and poured it into a water bottle, a court was told.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Linklaters, the ‘magic circle’ law firm, today ducked a multimillion-pound payout after defeating one of the largest negligence claims ever brought against a UK law firm.”
The Times, 21st April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The families of 10 British servicemen killed when their RAF Hercules was shot down in Iraq have issued a high court writ accusing the Ministry of Defence of negligence, breach of a duty of care and failing to comply with article two of the European convention on human rights, which enshrines the right to life.”
The Guardian, 15th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The lover, and former client, of an eminent psychologist, has sued him for professional negligence after he told her he no longer had a passion for her.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“For the purposes of gross negligence manslaughter, when a person had created or contributed to the creation of a state of affairs which he knew, or ought to have known had become life-threatening to another person, a consequent duty would normally arise on him to act by taking reasonable steps to save the other’s life.”
The Times, 7th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a woman who failed to call for medical help while her half-sister was dying of a heroin overdose.”
BBC News, 2nd April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A runner who was awarded £15,000 compensation after a Great Dane pushed him over while he jogged, has had the award cancelled by the Court of Appeal.”
BBC News, 30th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman has won a multi-million pound compensation settlement after a blunder at a Wearside hospital left her with serious brain damage.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A waste company in Sunderland has been fined £15,000 after one of its workers was killed when he was hit by a 20-tonne dumper truck.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The High Court has ruled that oil company Total is liable for damages caused by the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot in Hertfordshire.”
BBC News, 20th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A campaign by two Muslim governors to give Islam a greater presence in a state school played a key part in forcing a successful head from her job, the High Court found yesterday.”
The Times, 20th March 2009
“A cerebral palsy sufferer who won a scholarship to Eton and then achieved a mathematics PhD from Cambridge University has begun a legal battle to sue the NHS for millions of pounds over mistakes he claims were made by doctors at his birth.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A schoolboy awoke from surgery to remove a lump from his finger to discover the wrong one had been operated on.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Peters v East Midlands Strategic Health Authority and Another
Court of Appeal
“Damages awarded to a claimant severely disabled as a result of the defendants’ negligence were to be disregarded for the purpose of the charging provisions for the local authority providing her with statutory accommodation and care.”
The Times, 16th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Tann v Herrington [2009] EWHC 445 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 89
“Where a partner entrusted with the responsibility of dealing with all aspects of the firm’s professional indemnity insurance failed to fulfil his obligations, a liability in damages to a client, for which the firm’s professional indemnity insurer had refused indemnity, was a liability to be borne personally by the partner because he was responsible for notifying the insurers that a claim had been made and his delay in doing so caused the refusal of indemnity.”
WLR Daily, 11th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A Worcestershire woman whose twin girls were stillborn after ‘warning signs’ of medical problems were missed has won compensation from an NHS trust.”
BBC News, 5th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Financial Services Authority is facing a multimillion-pound compensation claim from a group of investors who say that the City watchdog failed to stop the activities of a suspected rogue trader.”
The Times, 5th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Mitchell and Another v Glasgow City Council
House of Lords
“Local housing authority landlords were under no duty to warn a neighbour who had received death threats from an abusive tenant that a meeting had been arranged at which he was warned that he would be evicted unless his behaviour improved, after which the abusive tenant inflicted fatal injuries on his neighbour.”
The Times, 26th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 from the date of publication.
“A charity has won the legal right to challenge a decision by the General Medical Council (GMC) not to investigate a boy’s death 19 years ago.”
BBC News, 24th February 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mitchell v Glasgow City Council [2009] UKHL 11; [2009] WLR (D) 65
“Where a local housing authority summoned one of its tenants, who had been abusing and threatening one of his neighbours, to a meeting at which he was told that he could face eviction if his behaviour did not improve and the tenant left the meeting and within an hour had inflicted fatal injuries on the neighbour, it was not fair, just or reasonable that the local housing authority should be held to have been under a common law duty to warn the neighbour that the meeting had been arranged.”
WLR Daily, 20th February 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
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