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Road Traffic Cases
Yaman v Tesco Stores Ltd and Another [2025] EWHC 3091 (KB)
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23 December 2025
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The Independent Office for Police Conduct Report on Hillsborough
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) describes itself as the police complaints watchdog for England and Wales and emphasises that it is "completely independent of them".The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd-crush at a football..
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23 December 2025
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Scope of duty of care in negligence claim against boarding school
Varela v Buckswood School Ltd [2025] EWHC 2445 (KB)
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23 December 2025
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Law Commission Report on Disabled Children
A report by the Law Commission has made a number of recommendations for improving the lives of disabled children within a legal context. Among the recommendations for reform are:The introduction of a simplified and unified legal framework for social..
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23 December 2025
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Clinical negligence claims
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) is in the process of lobbying Parliament for a change in the law to reduce the cost of compensating clinical negligence claims, by writing a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer asking for "decisive action to..
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23 December 2025
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Equipment failure
According to a report in The Guardian newspaper (9 June 2025), NHS England has confirmed that since 2022, failures in equipment such as defibrillators in the NHS in England, have been responsible for the deaths of 87 patients, with a further 68..
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23 December 2025
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Maternity reviews
Since 2010, there has been a series of high-profile investigations into maternity services in England and Wales. These inquiries were prompted by avoidable maternal and neonatal deaths, poor clinical care, failure to listen to families, and systemic..
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23 December 2025
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Consultation by the CQC
On 16 October 2025, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) which regulates health and social care in England opened the "Better regulation, better care" consultation, with the aim of reforming its regulatory approach to ensure that it is more effective,..
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23 December 2025
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Volume 41 Issue 10 - 23 December 2025