November 2006

• Autistic children and their right to treatment
  Alison Millar was recently approached by a mother who had tried unsuccessfully for a year to obtain occupational therapy treatment for her autistic son. 30 November 2006
• Guidance on treatment of premature and sick babies published
  Leigh Day & Co partner Anne Winyard is a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ working party that has been looking at the difficult questions surrounding the treatment of very premature or sick babies 15 November 2006
• Successful latex claim completed by Leigh Day & Co
  Daniel Easton, solicitor in the industrial diseases team at law firm Leigh Day & Co, has successfully concluded a claim for a client suffering from a latex allergy. 1 November 2006
• Prison transfer victory
  In the first settlement of its kind, the Prison Service has been forced to transfer a prisoner to a prison closer to the family home in order to allow his wife, who suffers from a range of serious health problems, to visit him. 1 November 2006