At the age of 24 years – and after having epilepsy since I was 16 years old – I had my first child. The pregnancy sailed along with less seizures more…

Very few people emerge with credit from the 1,700 pages and 270 recommendations of the Francis report on Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. They are the relatively few staff who more…

The deadly cancer mesothelioma is the latest target of proposed Government changes to the finding of legal actions which it claims will streamline the claims process, but in fact could more…

Who would have imagined that peers would have twice voted for and, twice sent back to the House of Commons, an amendment to exempt those dying from the fatal asbestos more…

Claims management companies providing a poor service could be forced to pay compensation, according to plans published by the Ministry of Justice today. From next year it will be the more…

A government in denial, changing the very laws which currently allow ‘access to justice’, no matter how deep their pockets. A junior minister championing those reforms who has investments in more…

The Actuarial Profession last week published a report in which they highlighted a marked increase in the number of personal injury claims made last year, despite a corresponding fall in more…

Yvette Livingstone is the mother of six-year old Annie, who was left with severe life-long disabilities after a series of medical blunders. Yvette argues Annie’s legal action for compensation could more…

The government is proposing in its Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill to withdraw legal aid funding for all clinical negligence cases. This is despite specialist firms of more…

The Ministry of Justice yesterday tabled two amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. On domestic violence: Ministers have promised to ‘put it beyond doubt that more…

The Prime Minister David Cameron launched his latest attack on the ‘compensation culture’ pledging to slash the £1,200 fee for lawyers on small personal injury claims. [Pic by Sehb Hundal]. more…

Alison Saunders, chief crown prosecutor for London Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), recently gave a speech relating to the prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences and hoped would spark debate more…

In the week that the Guardian published this interview with Alison Saunders, head of the Crown Prosecution Service, talking about ‘the demonisation’ of young women contributing to the failure to more…

In November 2008 Lord Justice Jackson was asked by the Labour Government to review how civil litigation was funded. The following autumn, Sir Ian Magee was brought in to shake more…

What does a compensation culture look like? What is a health and safety culture? Is it statistics which show road traffic accident (RTA) claims rising year on year?  It cannot more…

A recent report in the Independent has highlighted government plans to ban ‘convicted criminals’ from ‘claiming compensation for injuries sustained in attacks, in prison or after release’.  The policy relates more…

The increase in claims for whiplash is the main reason for the growth of motor insurance premiums, according to a report releasd today by the House of Commons Transport Committee. more…

Picking up where the Department of Business Innovation and Skills and the Ministry of Justice left off at the end of 2011 – hailing their erosion of hard-won workers’ rights more…

You might have read reports about ‘dodgy’ breast implants from France. If you have been following the news and have had breast implants manufactured by Poly Implants Prothese (PIP) you more…

Maybe this has passed you by but there has been a particularly fraught and somewhat unenlightening debate about banning ‘referral fees’: these are payments made by lawyers to claims management more…

ADVICE GUIDE: Accidents happen but sometimes they happen not through bad luck, misfortune or ‘wrong place-wrong time’ but because somebody else made a mistake. If this should happen to you then you have the right to bring a claim for compensation for your injuries and other losses (lost income, damage to property damage, medical expenses).

The forgotten thalidomide: Karl Murphy’s long fight for justice against the drug company that he believes damaged him in the womb.

Jonathan Djanogly was forced to admit this week that his two children had owned shares in a claims management firm despite his department’s responsibility for regulating the notoriously controversial industry. more…

A consortium of retailers and businesses led by the Association of British Insurers has called for an end to the ‘have a go’ compensation culture The group, which included Argos, more…

The family of Milly Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl, has attacked the government’s controversial plans to overhaul ‘no win, no fee’ deals. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Sally, Bob more…

News that Milly Dowler’s parents are negotiating a sizeable compensation sum under a ‘no win, no fee’ deal from Murdoch and News Corp, and that they have written to David more…