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The NHS’s head of complaints has told MPs that it is settling around two multi-million pound payouts every week for failings in maternity care. Helen Vernon, chief executive of NHS Resolution, said the largest single payout for clinical negligence this

A tribunal has heard that a female teacher was passed over for a job at a leading boarding school in favour of a male rival who had a “strong handshake”, Vanaja Greenwood applied for the role of full-time maths teacher

Last year Mr Steve Easterbrook, the British corporate star who turned around McDonald’s, was fired and the American food giant stated that it was because he had displayed “poor judgment” by having had a consensual relationship with a junior employee.

The sentencing council has said that, if their condition is not to blame for their offence, criminals suffering from mental health problems should not escape justice.  The council urges judges and magistrates to assess each case on its merits because

Mr Srichand Hinduja, aged 84, is suing his three younger brothers over controversy surrounding a letter stating that they all held each others assets. The brothers Srichand, Gopichand, Prakash and Ashok all signed a July 2014 letter stating, “assets held

Following inspections of the conditions in three jails, Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey, Altcourse in Liverpool, and Wandsworth in South London, findings emerged that prisoners with coronavirus symptoms were locked in cells for up to two weeks without being

An employee of the Natwest, owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, has won a record employment payout. She was hit by a car on her first day working for the bank at their Croydon branch. At the time she

A Beauty pageant and former Miss World has lost her fight against changing the rules for entrants. Veronika Didusenko lost her Miss Ukraine crown and was banned from Miss World competitions after it was revealed that she had been married,

Prominent lawyers have criticised the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for its decision to charge Caroline Flack with assault. They claim that Prosecutors who doggedly pursued Caroline Flack on domestic abuse charges were more interested in getting a “high profile scalp”

Heavy drinking can lead to many problems. As such one man woke up last February to find a credit-card charge for £50,000 hanging over his head. He subsequently contacted the police who visited the venue and launched an investigation into