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‘Law Reforms’: How Do They Affect ‘You’ The Personal Injury Client?

Gary : April 26, 2013 4:10 pm : News

An introduction into how the recent changes in personal injury law affect the personal injury claimant and how much compensation they can receive if their claim is successful.

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Lawyer is using Twitter to Spark debate on disability

Hilary : March 4, 2013 1:17 pm : News

Campaigning lawyer Hilary Meredith has taken to Twitter in a bid to change the way disabled people are referred to.
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Placing your trust in Elizabeth Truss – The Impact of Childcare Reforms

Gary : February 22, 2013 11:11 am : News

The impact of the new childcare reforms, the increase in child to staff ratio and how it will impact our children.
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Pentagon to end ban on women in front-line combat

Hilary : January 31, 2013 10:09 am : News

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the military’s ban on women serving in combat, a senior Pentagon official has said.
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Surgeons operating in the UK do not have insurance cover

Steve Ireland : January 31, 2013 10:08 am : News

It has emerged that British cosmetic clinics are using hundreds of foreign surgeons for “fly in, fly out” operations, many of them not insured in Britain.
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Golfer overcomes spinal injury to lift trophy

Steve Ireland : January 31, 2013 10:07 am : News

Few players have waited as long as Jamie Donaldson did for their first European Tour win – and even fewer have achieved it after being told their career could be over.

Donaldson’s brilliant four-stroke victory in the Irish Open at Royal Portrush last July came in his 255th Tour event and 12 years after he turned professional.
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MOD ‘loses’ bayonets from training base

Hilary : January 31, 2013 9:53 am : News

A military training centre in Devon has “lost” more than 8,000 pieces of equipment including 115 bayonets since 2008, the BBC has learned.

A list revealed that 8,312 items, including 13 dummy hand grenades and 2,860 pieces of cutlery, had been lost from the Lympstone Commando Centre.
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Offspring of Gurkha veterans win landmark legal challenge

Hilary : January 29, 2013 12:14 pm : News

Two sons of British Army Gurkha veterans have won a landmark legal challenge against Home Office policy on UK entry rights.
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Important changes to statutory funding of care delayed by coalition government’s attempts to reduce the deficit

Steve Ireland : January 25, 2013 11:54 am : News

Significant changes to the statutory funding of adult social care are required to address the needs of individuals who require long-term care and assistance. Unfortunately, the coalition government has continually failed to take the opportunity to carry out important reforms and the issue remains largely unresolved for vulnerable adults.
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Another 5,300 army job cuts in third tranche of redundancies announced today

Claire : January 23, 2013 2:15 pm : News

Philip Hammond, Defence Secretary, has announced that 5,300 army jobs are to be axed in the latest tranche of redundancies by the Ministry of Defence.It is thought to be the biggest round of redundancies since the early 1990′s with many compulsory job losses.

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