Lord McAlpine drops case against Twitter users
5th March 2013

Lord McAlpine has revealed that he has agreed to drop his libel action against twitter users with less than 500 followers in return for a donation to charity. In recently released statement he confirmed that he had written to the twitter users concer Read more...

Former Tory Co-Treasurer wins libel battle
19th February 2013

Former Tory co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, has won his libel case in the High Court against Mark Adams, former private secretary to Tony Blair. The case concerned twitter and blog posts made by Mr Adams which claimed that Mr Cruddas had breached the Po Read more...

Stafford Hospital pay £1m compensation
19th December 2012

Patients at Stafford Hospital were allegedly forced to sit in their own excrement and drink water from vases. Emma Jones, one of a number of lawyers acting for these patients has confirmed that Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has paid out the Read more...

Family sues GP service and nurse after death of daughter
7th December 2012

Clare Secker, 19, died in 2008 after a nurse failed to tell her parents to take her to see a doctor, instead advising them to give her paracetamol and fluids. Ms Secker subsequently died of bronchopneumonia when antibiotics could have saved her. Her Read more...

Whiplash report figures doubted by The Forum of Insurance Lawyers
23rd November 2012

The Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL) has criticised figures used in a report on whiplash produced by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). The introduction to the APIL survey states Whiplash is often painted as an epidemic – a wind Read more...