If you are in danger of being made redundant there are some things you can do to either perseude your employer to choose someone else or give yourself some leverage in trying to negotiate a better package. Employers have to do 3 things to make a redundancy fair: 1. They have to consult with you-…
Medway has Britain’s second highest rate of asbestos linked deaths, and the Government stands accused of dragging its feet in offering help victims while they are still alive. A company of compensation specialists used a freedom of information request to the UK’s office of statistics, and the results make shocking reading. It found only Barrow…
A partial U-turn on controversial plans to scrap legal aid for all clinical negligence cases was announced by the Government this week. The Ministry of Justice said it will table an amendment to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill to retain legal aid ‘in obstetrics cases which result in severe disability’.…
The scientific answer is YES. It is proven in a detailed study by Gordon Bannister a professor of othtopaedic surgery at Bristol Univeristy that an impact of just 2.5 mph is the threshold at which it is possible to cause whiplash injury. Most modern cars have bumpers that are designed to show no damage at…
RE: Opinion – A welcome move to take on whiplash claims (The Independent, 15 February 2012) Legal costs have already been slashed to the bone following the introduction nearly two years ago of a streamlined, fixed fee system for low-value road traffic claims. Insurers helped to develop this system and are now saving up…