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Nature of duty owed by school to children
West Sussex County Council v Pierce (a child) [2013] EWCA Civ 1230
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01 November 2013
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Unavoidable accident
Streeter v Hughes and another [2013] EWHC 2841 (QB)
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Cash for cash fraud
R v McKenzie [2013] EWCA Crim 1544
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01 November 2013
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Recycling firm fined over £300,000
The Health and Safety at Work Executive has confirmed that a recycling firm has been fined heavily following the death of an employee who was crushed by a skip lorry on a waste site run by Nolan Recycling Ltd in Pyle on 2 December 2010.
Nolan..
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Coroner finds that neglect had led to five deaths in care home
A Serious Case Review (SCR) has been established to investigate events at Orchid View care home in Copthorne, West Sussex, run by Southern Cross.
After an inquest lasting for five weeks, the West Sussex Coroner found that five elderly..
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High Court advice to coroners when litigation is pending
Matthews v Collins (t/a Herbert Collins and Sons) and others [2013] EWHC 2952 (QB)
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Disclosure of safeguarding documents
Worcestershire County Council & another v HM Coroner for County of Worcestershire [2013] EWHC 1711 (QB)
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Human Rights and inquests
R (on the application of Ali Zaki Mousa and others) v Secretary of State for Defence (No 2) [2013] EWHC 2941 (Admin)
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Consent to medical treatment
F v F [2013] EWHC 2683 (Fam)
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01 November 2013
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Safeguarding issues
A Serious Case Review (SCR) has concluded that Haringey Council failed to prevent another child from being abused, and that it had not learned lessons from the Baby Peter and Victoria Climbie cases.
A four-year-old boy, known as child T, had..
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Chief inspector of CQC to open care home inspections to the public
The first chief inspector of Adult Social Care has stated an intention to produce league tables in an overhaul of the regulation of adult care, and to recruit members of the public with personal experience of the care system to help conduct..
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£8 million settlement in case of cerebral palsy
A settlement has been reached in the case of a girl now aged 11 years, who was starved of oxygen during birth. She suffers from cerebral palsy in all her limbs and is a wheelchair user.
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust..
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01 November 2013
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Dental negligence
In Wardle v N, a 49-year-old woman, was compensated to the value of £10,000, in an out-of-court settlement, after she sustained permanent symptoms of numbness and paraesthesia affecting the lower left lip and chin, following the extraction of..
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Non-therapeutic sterilisation
N NHS Trust v DE and Others [2013] EWHC 2562 (Fam)
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Change of approach in employers’ liability claims from October 2013
Almost by stealth, s69 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, which came into force on 1 October 2013, will make it extremely difficult to succeed in a civil claim for breach of Health and Safety Regulations.
Under s47(2) of the..
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Coroner issues warning to cyclists in London
Coroner Mary Hassel has warned that cyclists should be taught how to ride safely in the vicinity of lorries in London and has ordered Transport for London to make strenuous efforts to highlight the dangers.
She warned that the Mayor’s..
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