Ebriefings

Following the Grenfell Tower Tragedy, the Government commissioned an independent review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety.

If you have a psychiatric injury caused by stress at work, it’s not clear how to claim for this as a personal injury. We talk through a recent case, which was initially rejected by a trade union.

The High Court Ruling in R(Harvey) v Ledbury Town Council has clarified how a council should deal with complaints against a councillor & has implications for Town & Parish Councils throughout England.

A Personal Health Budget (PHB) is an award by the NHS of an amount of money, that allows a patient, to have greater “choice and control” over planning their own care to help meet their individual heal

An RP granted a joint assured tenancy to Mr and Mrs M pre-2010. Mr M has recently died, his grandson and partner have approached us asking if they can succeed…

Fixed costs for clinical negligence cases valued at less than £25,000, is to become a reality and is in the pipeline of Government changes set to take effect over the next 12 months or so.

On 25 July 2017, the Government published a consultation which received over 6,000 replies, showing the vast amount of interest in the area. We were amongst those who sent a response…

Haringey LBC v Simawi 2018 focussed on the issue of statutory succession where one of two joint secure tenants had died, then the remaining tenant later died leaving an adult child in occupation.

The government announced on 16 May that it will provide a fund of £400m to cover the costs of removal and replacement of cladding to high rise residential blocks which have failed tests.

The use of large up-front fees and disproportionate deposits has already resulted in significant cost consequences for one care provider.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has, for the first time, ruled on the issue of enhanced shared parental pay for fathers. It confirmed that failure to pay a male employee enhanced […]

The tragedy, in this case, is that there were options readily available to the midwives that they could have used. This was not a case of having to go above and beyond.