This week, the Government faced questions on plans for a fund of last resort for workers who cannot trace their employers’ insurers. Following a similar line of questioning last week, Conservative MP Tracey Crouch and Labour MP Nic Dakin have persisted in quizzing DWP minister Chris Grayling on support for mesothelioma sufferers, and when a…
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’.…
With Occupy still in residence at St Paul’s we have considered this complex situation and the options available to the Church and the City of London Corporation. Last week the CJC published a report on litigants in person; we are also experiencing an increase in cases where the creditor is representing himself and this can…
Make a note in your diary for the Landlord and Buy to Let Show in Birmingham on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th of November – Free seminars and lots of help and free advice for landlord . The Landlord & Letting Show, on at Birmingham NEC – Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17thNovember 2011. Usually the…