September 2011

• Fresh concerns about metal-on-metal hip components
  Australian National Joint Replacement Registry (ANJRR) publishes 2011 annual report which details startling early revision rates for metal-on-metal hip resurfacing components. 30 September 2011
• NICE publish new guidelines on multiple birth care
  NHS told to improve care of women carrying twins or triplets 28 September 2011
• Marks & Spencer fail to prevent potential asbestos exposure
  Marks and Spencer fined £1m over asbestos hazard 28 September 2011
• Legal 500 2011 rank main Leigh Day practice areas in top band
  Clinical negligence, personal injury, product liability and public law teams receive top ranking 26 September 2011
• Lung cancer caused by coke oven work could be added to prescribed diseases list
  Command paper from Department of Work and Pensions on industrial disease listing 21 September 2011
• Gold miners with lung disease start UK legal action
  South African subsidiary of Anglo American faces legal action 21 September 2011
• Appeal for information by former East Greenwich Gas Works man
  Fred Court is searching for old work colleagues 19 September 2011
• Troubling times for the NHS
  Health and Social Care Bill moves to House of Lords 19 September 2011
• New reporting arrangements for accidents at work have come into force
  The Health and Safety Executive recently announced new reporting arrangements 19 September 2011
• Significant amount of compensation for psychiatric injury
  Six figure sum awarded to man injured in a car crash 15 September 2011
• Cyclist receives damages after injuries and memory loss
  British Triathlon Federation member successfully represented by Leigh Day 15 September 2011
• Leigh Day & Co welcomes findings of Sir William Gage
  Calls for justice after damning public inquiry into death of Baha Mousa 8 September 2011
• What price justice? Jackson reforms threaten access to justice for those injured by doctors
  ITV broadcasts programme looking at plans to cut legal aid for clinical negligence cases 8 September 2011
• More protection from fatal asbestos fibre needed in UK
  The UK is failing to comply with asbestos laws designed to protect workers 7 September 2011
• Richard Stein calls on DPP to clarify current assisted suicide guidance
  Leigh Day represents stroke victim AM who wants the right to die 6 September 2011
• Baha Mousa Inquiry to Report on 8th September 2011
  The Chairman of the Inquiry to make a short statement 6 September 2011
• Christine Tallon successfully settles claim on behalf of car passenger
  Client injured in head-on collision with car towing a burger van 6 September 2011
• Government consultation on modern workplaces
  Leigh Day comments on flexible working proposals 5 September 2011