June 2004

Human rights case defends privacy of medical records

Court rules that an application to see someone’s medical records against their will would be a breach of their human rights. The case was won by Sean Humber, human rights lawyer at Leigh Day & Co.

Royal coachman, crushed by horse, receives damages

A former royal coachman has received damages of £720,000 after he was thrown from his horse and then crushed by it in an accident at work