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Mar 2018

Yorkshire’s Legal People Sponsor Wakefield Gala Dinner

Chadwick Lawrence, also known as Yorkshire’s Legal People, recently supported their local community by sponsoring the annual Theatre Royal Wakefield Gala Dinner and Variety Performance on Friday 9th March. Raising £30,000, this year’s gala event contributes further towards Theatre Royal Wakefield’s community work with young people in Wakefield and the surrounding areas. This year the…

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20
Mar 2018

Recent television and radio dramas highlight seriousness of sepsis

Sepsis, also known as septicaemia or blood poisoning, has featured as a recent storyline in two BBC dramas, Call The Midwife and The Archers, the impact of which has resulted in one particular Accident & Emergency department in Essex seeing over 80 people a day, fearing that they have the condition. Sepsis is a potentially…

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20
Mar 2018

Delays in surgery leaves NHS patients in ‘pain and discomfort’

The Royal College of Surgeons have said that thousands of NHS patients in England have been left in ‘pain and discomfort’ due to operations being postponed, with patients waiting for knee and hip surgery being the worst affected. Professor Derek Alderson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said that the operation delays were a…

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16
Mar 2018

Bankrupt’s claim against trustee in bankruptcy struck out; irrelevant that claimant was litigant in person (High Court)

Reynard v Fox [2018] EWHC 443 (Ch) (08 March 2018) The High Court has struck out a claim by a Bankrupt against his trustee in bankruptcy for damages for breach of contract and negligence under CPR 3.4(2)(a) (disclosing no reasonable cause of action) on the basis that it was a common law claim that the…

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14
Mar 2018

Claimant awarded £4,000 for accident in a pub

The Claimant went to the toilets at her local pub near to closing time. The toilets had been mopped but there were no wet floor signs put out and the Claimant slipped, sustaining ligament damage to her knee. The Defendant Insurers went into administration and so the claim had to be directed to the Financial…

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14
Mar 2018

Claimant awarded £11,000 for accident at work

The Claimant started working for the Defendant company around a month before his accident and received little training. Whilst he was working on a piece of machinery, he turned around to pick up a piece of wood from the floor and as he turned back around he was struck in the face by a piece…

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