Some may think that, if they have suffered a poor standard of care during a stay at hospital, they should be entitled to compensation of some sort. Sadly it is not as straightforward as that and medical negligence can be extremely difficult to prove. A potential claimant has to prove causation. This is where there [...]

An ITV programme is looking into repeat offending and how to make communities safer. It will look into efforts to address such issues as alcohol and drug dependency, family issues and housing and employment needs. The prisons minister says repeat offenders are at the heart of what the government is trying to do, with more [...]

Labour has announced that if it comes back into power at the next election it will look at reducing the number of women prisoners. It seems a strange attempt at vote winning, but there are some reasons for their approach. About 11,000 women were banged up last year and the numbers have more than doubled [...]

It’s hard to decide which sites give the best advice if you have been the victim of medical negligence. It’s best to go with a real legal advice site which is managed by a firm of solicitors and this is where the Claims Connection can be useful. The site is managed by Winston Solicitors LLP, [...]

The new law making squatting a criminal offence has only been in place a matter of days but already police, in one part of the country at least, are trying to enforce it. It remains to be seen whether other forces will be as rigorous in using their new powers. Three people, who glued themselves [...]

The government has announced moves to remove thousands of businesses from the need to have health and safety inspections while making it harder to successfully sue them in negligence claims. Do you support these moves or is it a populist measure which could actually do more harm than good? The government is preparing to remove [...]

Though the Olympics may have come and gone, though leaving a lasting and positive impression as they did so, one man may not have such a favourable view of London 2012 after he was arrested for “not smiling”. Mark Worsfold, who has Parkinson’s Disease, was arrested at the men’s cycling road race at the Games [...]

It is little short of incredible that an ill-timed and foolish remark made on Twitter should have such serious ramifications for Paul Chambers. The former trainee accountant was annoyed at Robin Hood Airport near Doncaster being closed due to snow and said he would blow it up if it did not reopen in time for [...]

A new survey from a parenting website has revealed that the traditional seven year itch when couples are more likely to split up, has been reduced down to just three years. Netmums, which surveyed 1,500 couples, found that people are now four and a half times more likely to separate after three years, with fewer [...]

Huge Google update has shaken up the search engine results for law firms In the last month a significant Google update has hit the UK legal market with a raft of changes to the top 10 of some very important law related search requests. For many years we have seen an array of poor quality [...]