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Update: health and safety

Zahra Nanji considers how the Young report and its offshoots have been affecting case law

Roll with it

It is music to my clients' ears that I have settled a couple of cases. The first was difficult on a number of levels because...

£6m plastic surgery award 'could not happen after Jackson reforms'

The solicitor acting for Penny Johnson, the woman who won £6m in damages at the High Court in the biggest ever award for plastic surgery...

Claim to share of farm an 'incurable nullity'

A claim by three daughters to a half share of a farm lived in by their father, who died intestate, has been described as an...

Judicial review court to be mothballed next week

Hearings at Sittingbourne Magistrates' Court, the court at the centre of the legal battle against the government's radical closure programme, will end tomorrow.

New conveyancing service to sign up six firms by Christmas

In-Deed, the conveyancing service launched earlier this week by Rightmove's founder Harry Hill, is looking to sign up six firms on to its panel between...

High Court cuts plastic surgery victim's claim from £66m to £6m

The High Court has awarded £6m in damages to a successful businesswoman whose face was badly injured by plastic surgery.

PC charged with manslaughter over death of Tomlinson

PC Simon Harwood has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during the 2009 G20 protests.