Tracy Hall dies aged 38 with coroner stating a quicker diagnosis could have prevented her death
Clinical Negligence News : 13 June 2012
An inquest at Leeds Coroner’s Court has heard that a mother of two from Castleford who died due to multi-organ failure may have lived if doctors had acted quicker.
Law Society seek City firms support for LASPO effect
Industry News : 11 June 2012
The support of big City law firms is being requested by the Law Society for a high-profile initiative which is hoping to help high street practices and their clients meet the challenges that they are now facing due to legal aid cuts.
Portal won’t cope with extension, says Law Society
Industry News : 7 June 2012
An extension will not be supported by the Law Society of the RTA portal until there are major structural changes to the system. The Society has warned the government it will be impossible to extend the portal to include employer and public liability cases.
Morwenna Ganz multi-million pounds award ‘impossible’ for similar cases following limits on legal aid from April 2013
Clinical Negligence News : 1 June 2012
Morwenna Ganz, now 26, has been awarded compensation worth over £1,000,000 for the devastating brain injuries she suffered when she was 14 years old.
Doctors Chambers now has Twitter!
Company News : 30 May 2012
We are now up and running on social-media website Twitter!
Margaret Burton, 90, dies after a feeding tube is inserted into her lung
Clinical Negligence News : 30 May 2012
Margaret Burton, a 90-year-old former shop owner died following the incorrect insertion of a feeding tube into her lung instead of her stomach.
Premature twins in “good” state die after being given fatal overdose of morphine at Stafford Hospital
Clinical Negligence News : 29 May 2012
Newborn twins Alfie and Harry McQuillin were given more than 10 times the prescribed amount of morphine at Stafford Hospital, an inquest has heard.
NHS set to impose £500 fines on hospitals who allow their patients to suffer from bedsores
Clinical Negligence News : 28 May 2012
NHS bosses in Worestershire and across the region are due to be fined £500 for every time an NHS patient suffers from a serious bed sore
Regulation of Claims Management Companies set to be tightened following Ministry of Justice consultation
Industry News : 24 May 2012
The Ministry of Justices’ regulation of claims management companies is due to be concentrated on in a planned consultation on how the regulating can be tightened.
NHS pay multi million pound compensation after removing the wrong part of paramedics brain
Clinical Negligence News : 24 May 2012
Retired paramedic John Tunney, 63, has been awarded a seven-figure sum from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS trust after they admitted liability for removing the wrong part of the paramedics brain.