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New official statistics have been published showing an increase in the number of workers killed in Britain last year. The Health and Safety Executive has released provisional data for the year April 2010 to March 2011, which shows the number of workers killed was 171, an increase on the previous year when 147 died – […]

Recent figures released by the Ministry of Justice have revealed that injury compensation worth over £10 million has been paid to prison inmates over the past five years, reports the Independent. The data, which was released following an freedom of information request, shows that in 2009/10 alone, compensation worth over £3.2 million was paid out, […]

Castle Point Borough Council has been fined following an incident where a seven-year old girl was trapped by a water outlet at a swimming pool. The girl was using the swimming pool with her great grandfather in May 2009. Her hair was sucked into the water sampling outlet on the side of the pool, trapping […]

Small fibres which are made to toughen bike frames and hockey sticks have been identified as a possible cause of asbestos like cancer. The carbon nanotubes which are used for strengthening tennis rackets and as a possible item for bullet proofing clothing have been found to cause harm in mice if the longer nanotubes become […]

From a personal injury practitioner’s perspective there are serious questions whether two major proposals in the Gill Review would improve access to justice. The Cabinet Secretary for Justice welcomed Lord Gill’s report in the Scottish Parliament by describing it as “hard hitting” and “the first system wide review in modern times”. The writer concurs in […]

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