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Airbag award
Against the norm, a plaintiff has won compensation for malfunction of an airbag and award of US$4mn for permanent damage to hand and arm. In this case, the victim, a young girl, survived the accident and was able to offer convincing testimony that..
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Enron stirs up D&O market
Insurance companies Royal Insurance of America and St Paul Mercury have informed the US Bankruptcy Court that they will not be honouring contracts based on ‘material misrepresentations’ by Enron, and many more are likely to take similar..
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Dual-pricing payback
Responding to an ombudsman ruling that its dual-pricing mortgage policy was unfair, Nationwide Building Society is to refund around £90mn to borrowers and automatically switch all borrowers to the lower-rate product.
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EU airlines seek terror cover
European airlines are working to create their own war and terror risk insurance fund, with doubts on the viability of global scheme proposals. Although some commercial options are available, airlines consider them – at US$3.1 per passenger per..
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BSE, CJD and F&M
Deaths from vCJD
(some still to be confirmed) stand at 109 as of March 2002. Seven others are still living. Five deaths in the first two months of this year, set against the total of 20 last year, suggest increased incidence but this may level out..
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Ombudsman’s liability for costs
Where, in a successful appeal against a decision of the Pensions Ombudsman, the ombudsman had appeared in person in support of his determination, costs retrievable from him extend beyond those associated with his appearance and could be as wide as..
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Date of injury under Merchant Shipping Act
The two-year limitation period began to run from the date on which the claimant recognised psychiatric injury rather than the date of the (precipitating) collision of vessels.
The Edward Duke of Windsor • Queen’s Bench Division •
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Awards and settlements
A whistleblower’s constructive dismissal is
expected to lead to compensation in the region of £600,000. The man, a train driver, was threatened and bullied when he reported repeated passing of red lights and other safety infringements,..
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Riot act invoked
Loss adjuster Capita McClaren, acting for Lloyd’s D J Pye syndicate 962, managed by Creechurch Underwriting, will seek £43mn on behalf of its insured, Group 4, from Bedford Police Authority in respect of damage to the Yarl’s Wood..
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Professional Indemnity Insurance: the Quest for a Rationale
29–30 April • Marriott Hotel, Leeds • An exposition of professional indemnity business through analysis of the legal background, the rationale behind problems of policy coverage and an examination of developments in individual..
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Data Protection Code in recruitment selection
A further part of the Data Protection Code, covering the recruitment and selection part of the Employment Practices Data Protection Code, has been issued. This sets out benchmarks for good practice for employers.
Main points include the need for..
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Legal aid in cross-border disputes
The European Commission has published proposals for a directive laying down minimum common rules relating to legal aid and allied financial matters in cross-border disputes.
This despite difficulties of full harmonisation because of the wide..
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Clinical negligence overhaul
Weeks before the publication of a government white paper is expected, personal injury solicitors have given backing to proposals on reform of clinical negligence claims put forward by the Conservative Party.
These include the suggestion that in..
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Trace code has limited success
In a parliamentary answer, Alan Whitehead said the code of practice that came into operation in November 1999, designed to help those suffering from industrial disease to trace their former employer’s insurers, has had a ‘degree of..
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Consultation of periodic payments
The UK government will consult on aspects of compensation payments, in particular the increased use of periodic payments, includes:
Whether there are circumstances in which a lump sum payment is the most appropriate means of compensation
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Increase in bereavement damages
The Lord Chancellor has announced his intention to raise the level for bereavement damages in fatal accidents from £7,500 (set in 1991) to £10,000 from 1 April 2002.
This level will be applicable to claims where death has occurred after..
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Iron in the soul?
With asbestos – and the expected effects of 11 September – leading to ever more insurers and reinsurers closing their doors to business (see LRI
March 2002) a new publication, Insurance Run-Offs Newsletter
(IRON), is timely.
The lead..
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Insurers’ responsibility for access to justice
Speaking to members of the Insurance Institute of London, Brian Raincock of Litigation Protection hit hard at the industry’s failure to tackle the problem of recoverability of premiums.
Noting there are more than 150,000 unresolved cases..
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Alleged faulty emission systems
A pollution claim by the California Air Resources Board, alleging causation by faulty emission control systems in 330,000 Toyota vehicles, has led to settlement of US$7.9mn without admission of fault. Calls for recall were dropped. Similar claims by..
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Stricter rollover tests
The National Academies’ Research Council has criticised the US National Highways & Transport Safety Association (NHTSA), saying current rollover tests do not go far enough. Responding to the number of claims arising from rollover, the..
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Drunk driving and duty to produce safe cars
The New York State Court of Appeals has allowed a suit by the widow of a drunken driver to proceed against Volkswagen, the vehicle’s manufacturer, alleging defective design.
The court was considering the death of Silhadi Alami, who died in..
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European liability insurance 2000
Following the surveys of the UK and Irish liability markets, our database team has produced tables of premium income for leading European groups and companies writing general liability risks. Table 1 lists the premium income for liability business..
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Andersen’s agony
The exodus of US clients accelerates, merger talks falter, the option of chapter 11 bankruptcy is problematic due to the firm’s complex partnership structure, hundreds of Andersen partners are reported to be looking to quit and Houston-based..
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Independent policyholders target FSA
The creditors of Independent Insurance Group are to sue the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for its role in the collapse of the insurer. They allege the FSA failed to act on warnings from the Commission de Contrôle des Assurances about..
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In the stink?
Noting the rise in the number of homes flooded by sewers, environment minister Michael Meacher has warned up to 40% of homeowners could face unexpected and costly bills for their renewal. Many homeowners are unaware the systems connecting their..
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New RSI guide
The Trades Union Congress has issued new risk filter guidance for safety representatives on early identification of repetitive strain injury (RSI) in the workplace. One in 50 workers is thought to suffer symptoms.
Commenting on this, Mike Noonan of..
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Agency workers
A draft EU directive, due for publication and further consideration in near future, would bring agency workers’ rights more or less in line with those of other workers.
Britain, with over a million such workers, accounts for around half the..
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Long-term sick entitled to holiday pay
An employment appeal tribunal ruling relating to a factory worker with long-term back pain, confirms his entitlement to holiday pay under the new working time regulations that came into force in 1998.
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The safer clubbing guide
While a practical move to avoid serious harm to those indulging in excess alcohol and illegal drugs, the Home Office guide for club owners and others on risk reduction for their clients could raise a number of tricky problems on drugs being allowed..
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Mont Blanc tunnel partly reopens
Three years after it was closed following a truck fire and 39 deaths, the Mont Blanc tunnel has reopened to light traffic. The single-tube tunnel, built in 1965, has undergone a complete overhaul and upgrade of safety installations, including the..
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Road barrier call
A Health & Safety Commission report into last year’s train crash, caused when a Land Rover left the road and blocked the track, called for more safety barriers between roads and vulnerable stretches of rail track.
A report from the..
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Paddington prosecutions
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed that Railtrack and Thames Trains are to be prosecuted for the Paddington rail crash under the Health & Safety at Work Act, as soon as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has completed..
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Guidance on level of fines
In reducing a fine for breaches of health and safety legislation, the Court of Appeal has set the scene for higher fines proportionate to the strength of the offending company.
In R v Colthrop Board Mill Ltd
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Swissair claims barred
The 20 unsettled civil suits out of 224 arising from the 1998 crash of Swissair flight 111, seeking punitive damages, have been barred by chief US district judge James Giles in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Lockerbie appeal rejected
With the rejection by the special court of Al Megrahi’s appeal against conviction for his part in the placing of the Pan Am flight 103 bomb, UK relatives now demand a full public inquiry into the intelligence and security lapses leading to the..
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More pesticides to come under convention
The United Nations environment programme has called for three dangerous pesticides and all forms of asbestos to be added to list of chemicals that cannot be exported without ‘prior informed consent’ of importing country.
One of these is..
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Mast emissions low but testing continues
Research conducted by the Radio Communications Agency (a division of the Department of Trade & Industry) has shown emissions from 100 mobile phone masts situated near schools are far lower than those set by international guidelines. But the UK..
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Murder disclosure?
Disclosure of a crime having taken place on premises is not currently required under Missouri or Kansas law, but a recent lawsuit aims to change that.
The couple who bought a house and subsequently discovered a man had been brutally murdered there..
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Only 5.2% small business claims paid in full
A survey by the Downtown Alliance of Lower Manhattan shows only 5.2% of the district’s small businesses have received full payment of insurance claims related to the 11 September attack.
Only 14.3% have received partial payment and 60.4%..
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One WTC arbitration, other battles continue
Westfield America Trust, owner of the long-term lease for the shopping centre at the World Trade Center, and Zurich American Insurance have agreed to arbitrate their coverage dispute.
Zurich’s exposure will be capped at US$55mn.
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Manville moves into claims resolution services
The Manville Trust, set up in 1988 to handle asbestos claims against building materials producer Johns Manville, plans to offer claims resolution services to other companies, solvent or involved in bankruptcy proceedings.
Using its expertise of..
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Chester Street discussions
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has held ‘productive’ discussions with the Scottish Secretary on payment problems arising from the collapse of Chester Street (formerly Iron Trades Holdings), which carried insurance for around..
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Mesothelioma moves
The House of Lords will now hear appeals on all the mesothelioma apportionment cases in April, following agreement to also hear that of Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Authorities & Others,
originally refused, on 24 April.
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Halliburton takes further charge
Halliburton is to take a further charge of US$80mn for asbestos liabilities following a ruling of the Delaware Supreme Court that primary insurance policies issued by Halliburton’s subsidiary, Highlands Insurance Group, to a Halliburton unit..
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General Motors
General Motors (GM) is continuing to spend around US$10mn a year on legal fees and settlements of claims arising from asbestos in brake linings. GM said it is settling claims, although believing them to be without merit, to avoid legal fees and the..
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Honeywell may seek partial protection
Honeywell is seeking partial protection against asbestos claims relating to NARCO (North American Refractories). If successful, it will still face more than 100,000 claims from Honeywell’s Bendix brake division and a possibly huge exposure..
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Move to involve tobacco firms
The insurer of Australian support services firm, Brambles, is suing British American Tobacco (BAT) Australia Services for contribution to US$100,000 compensation paid to a former employee, Mr Mowbray, who died of lung cancer.
The argument is that it..
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French ruling on protection for workers
The final French court of appeal, the Court of Cassation, has opened the way to a new swathe of asbestos claims. This is in ruling on 29 cases where an employer had been found guilty of inexcusable misconduct through failure to ensure its workers..
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Tobacco firms face asbestos threat.
See
Asbestos update
Government response to tobacco advertising
with the adoption of a Liberal Democrat’s private members bill to ban many forms of adverts follows days after criticism by doctors.
Some 40 years after the publication of the..
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Tobacco update
A double amputee was awarded US$200,000,
with punitive damages to be set, by a federal district court jury in Kansas City. The smoker developed circulatory disease as a result of his habit. The award was made 99% against R J Reynolds and 1% against..
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Monsanto sues farmers
Dozens of US and Canadian farmers face claims and penalties from Monsanto, alleging infringement of copyright. This is through their collecting and planting seeds from legitimately purchased genetically modified (GM) crops.
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New enforcement code by FSA
The Food Standards Agency is preparing a new code of practice to replace the 20 codes currently in place. A final version for public perusal is expected to be published within weeks. Proposals are expected to:
Increase inspections of approved..
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Compulsory insurance for nurses
The Nursing Standard
of 13 March 2002 notes that a new, almost finalised, Code of Professional Conduct will require that all registered nurses carry some form of insurance cover as from April. The code will also impose on nurses a duty to assist..
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Royal Society on DU contamination
Prof Brian Spratt, chairman of the Royal Society working group studying issues of depleted uranium (DU), has called for warnings of long-term risks to children who live where DU munitions have been used.
Noting that DU from corrosion of more than..
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Human right to single vaccine?
Gareth Fairhurst, the father of a 13-month-old infant, plans court action alleging that governmental action in refusing to make available single injections against mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) available on the National Health Service is a breach..
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MMR info
New Scientist
of 16 February 2002 carries straightforward detail of the current MMR research situation.
It also questions fears of lower protection should the single vaccine option be made available, showing flaws in much-quoted statistics..
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Bipolar disorder physical and mental disorder
A US district court has come to the decision, in Fitts v Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae),
that Unum Life Insurance of America improperly classified an employee’s bipolar disorder as mental rather than physical illness,..
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Sulzer settlement
Sulzer Medica and patients suing the company over defective hip and knee implants have reached a final legal settlement in general terms of US$1bn, with details still to be finalised. This came on the last day before individual lawsuits would have..
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Release of medical records
A useful note from Beachcroft Wansbroughs (BW) (detail from Suzanne Day at sday@bwlaw.co.uk) deals with problems of release of medical records.
Before CPR (Crown Proceedings Rules) it was clear that full medical records should be disclosed in their..
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Liability of advisory body to an individual
The claimant, who had chickenpox at the age of five, was given junior aspirin by her mother on 21 May 1986. Her condition worsened and she was admitted to hospital two days later suffering from Reye’s syndrome. She now suffers spastic..
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No duty to ultrasensitive plants
A local authority under statutory duty to supply water of drinking standard had no additional duty to meet the special needs of individual users requiring a high quality of water for horticultural purposes.
Hamilton and Another v Papakura District..
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Substitution of defendant
A new defendant may be substituted for an existing defendant, in a strict product liability claim, even outside the 10-year cutoff period.
This where a claimant (in MMR group litigation), acting on the basis of guidance notes provided for the..
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Control of trees
One of the first cases to apply Delaware Mansions v City of Westminster
(2001) (a tree root damage case that included the requirements that the tree owner be provided with reasonable ‘opportunity to abate’) has supported the..
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Asset freeze can call for cross-undertaking
Where a successful party has sought an asset-freezing order he can be required to give a cross-undertaking where the trial judge has given the unsuccessful party leave to appeal.
Gwembe Valley Development Co Ltd (in Receivership) v Koshy and Others..
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Police disclosure of eyewitness statements
In investigations by the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) that the police had caused the claimant serious injury, it was incumbent on the PCA to disclose eyewitness statements to the claimant.
R (Green) v Police Complaints Authority •..
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Cross-border action for deteriorated condition
While French law permits a fresh cause of action from a victim of injury, who has already awarded damages, should their condition deteriorate, English law has no such provision.
Therefore such an action brought in the English courts would be struck..
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Costs denied where mediation refused
Costs have been denied to a winning party that refused to consider mediation. A claimant appealed against a decision preventing him seeking damages from Railtrack and, at a hearing granting his right to appeal, both parties were exhorted to engage..
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Level of fines for health and safety breaches
Comment by Lord Justice Gibbs suggests the unofficial ceiling of £500,000 except for ‘major public disasters’ is not to be viewed as set in stone.
Assessment should take more account of the means of companies, as well as the..
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Guidance on discount rates
The Court of Appeal has provided useful guidance on discount rates.
The defendant sought to set aside a case management order allowing the claimant to rely on expert accountancy evidence as to the discount rate to be applied in determining the..
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Psychiatric condition per Warsaw Convention
Under the terms of the Warsaw Convention a psychiatric condition developed by a passenger as a result of an accident on board an aircraft did not constitute a ‘bodily injury’.
To be classified as a ‘bodily injury’ it would be..
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Personal or professional misconduct
It has been held lawful that a surgeon dismissed for lying to a patient about medical procedures should have been dealt with under the HC90-(9) procedure for professional misconduct rather than under procedures of general misconduct. This is because..
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Comparators of equal pay
Salary rates in the education sector, set by reference to a statutory scheme based on nationwide agreement, do not require that comparators be limited to those of the same area as the claimant.
Morton v South Ayrshire Council • Court of..
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Personal knowledge of special adviser
It has been ruled that the Lord Chancellor was not guilty of sex discrimination in imposing a condition that a special adviser, to be appointed, must be personally known to him.
Coker & Osamor v Lord Chancellor & Lord Chancellor’s..
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Dismissal before transfer of insolvent business
The question of whether a dismissal by receivers, at the behest of new purchasers of an insolvent business shortly before transfer, was of an ‘economic, technical or organisation reason’ was for decision by tribunal.
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Misrepresentation to ensure transfer
While there was no positive duty on an employer seeking to transfer an operation in accordance with TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment), to make employees aware of their pension rights, there was a common law, as well as..
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Contractual trust and confidence
It has been held, on appeal, that a tribunal was wrong in holding that a public reprimand by a manager was not sufficiently serious as to amount to repudiation of an implied contractual term of trust and confidence.
Any breach of implied term of..
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Definition of disability
A foundry worker developed (probably occupationally caused) asthma and was transferred to other duties.
Later reorganisation put him back in the foundry, exposed to fumes, leading to extensive sick leave. As the firm had no opening for him in its..
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Redundancy and career breaks
A woman, originally employed in 1973, took an agreed four-year postpregnancy career break, returned to work in 1994 and was made redundant in 1999. Her redundancy entitlement was calculated from 1994.
It was held on appeal that the entitlement..
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Tax structure concern dismissal
Brian Shubrook, a former executive of Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL, now part of ING Barings), is seeking £1.6mn damages for unfair dismissal. He claims he was sacked after raising concerns about the legality of tax structures of BBL’s..
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Stigma damages
First recognised as recently as 1998 when the House of Lords gave former employees of the Bank of Credit & Commerce the right to seek damages for the possible effects on their future employability from the stigma of having worked for that..
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WTC families sue Bin Laden
The families of seven people killed in the attack on the World Trade Center have filed a class action suit in Federal District Court in Washington against Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the nations of Iran and Iraq, seeking US$1bn in..
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‘Deliberate unlawful assault’
After rejection by the Court of Appeal of the Metropolitan Police appeal against a High Court ruling that injuries, (including a fractured skull) leading to epilepsy and abandonment of studies inflicted on 16-year-old student John Wilson, were an..
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‘Hopeless’ at PE
Both teacher Carol Stevens and then-14-year-old pupil Rhian Ashton knew the girl was ‘hopeless’ at gymnastics. But her teacher pressured her into trying a high-risk headstand without adequate supervision from which she fell, suffering..
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Third-generation contraceptive pill claims
Seven individuals represent more than 100 women claiming injury, including deaths and serious disabilities, from the use of contraceptive pills. Targeted are three major pharmaceutical companies, Schering Healthcare, Wyeth and Organon Laboratories...
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MoD targeted for psychiatric injury
Fifteen generic cases, chosen from more than 2,000 former servicemen claimants, will be heard over the next six months by Mr Justice Owen in the High Court. The claimants had sought mediation but the government rejected this.
Represented by Stephen..
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Growing mould problem could spread worldwide
US mould problems cannot be relied on to remain there; whether named as ‘mould’ or masquerading as part of ‘sick building syndrome’ there is every reason to believe this comparatively new type of claim will spread worldwide,..
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