In allowing mass infection, Boris Johnson’s government is pursuing a strategy that will lead to avoidable deaths and long term illness,
— Read on blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/15/governments-plan-recklessly-exposes-millions-in-the-uk-to-infection-when-they-could-be-vaccinated/
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Coronavirus: China
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Coronavirus: Dingwell’s view
know of no episode in history where a government has willingly aided and abetted the spread of a dangerous infectious disease among its own population
— Read on www.newstatesman.com/politics/2021/07/why-uk-s-new-covid-19-strategy-uniquely-dangerous
Judicial Review and Courts Bill will be introduced to parliament this week.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/judges-starting-to-show-restraint-on-jrs-says-lord-chancellor/5109278.article
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Brexit: supermarkets
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Coronavirus: ventilation tool
(Listen to last week’s all the citizens webinar)
PM and Sunak not isolating despite being ‘pinged’ after Javid’s positive COVID test
— Read on news.sky.com/story/pm-and-sunak-not-isolating-despite-being-pinged-after-javids-positive-covid-test-12358198
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USA police watch: LA
SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 Delta variant emergence, replication and immune evasion
— Read on www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.08.443253v4
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Coronavirus: which test
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USA: police watch
Special measures will be kept in custody suites and face masks will be required in communal parts of court buildings.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/were-being-careful-hmcts-reassures-court-users-ahead-of-freedom-day/5109244.article
High Court grants damages and ancillary relief after claims for libel, harassment and data protection breach.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/unknown-blogger-liable-for-70000-over-metoo-posts/5109249.article
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US police watch: Detroit
Allowing mass infections now is a terrible idea, even with so many vaccinated, says Christina Pagel, director of UCL’s Clinical Operational Research Unit
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/13/covid-numbers-england-freedom-day-dont-add-up-strain-nhs
CJC report ‘opens the door to a significant shift’, says Sir Geoffrey Vos.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/master-of-the-rolls-gives-green-light-to-mandatory-adr/5109184.article
Judge critical of international firm which has billed £345,000 since October.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/tardy-defendant-allowed-to-fight-101m-case-by-skin-of-his-teeth/5109192.article
It is not uncommon in clinical negligence cases for clients to seek legal advice a number of years after the potential negligence has occurred. This can be for a combination of reasons. For example, clients may have had no reason to suspect any negligence until some time later and the impact of the negligence and/or injury may only have become apparent much later on.
— Read on www.penningtonslaw.com/news-publications/latest-news/2021/azam-v-university-hospital-birmingham-nhs-foundation-trust-a-defendant-must-produce-evidence-of-likely-prejudice-to-successfully-oppose-an-application-for-section-33-discretion-to-bring-a-claim-out-of-time#:~:text=The%20recent%20case%20of%20Azam%20v%20University%20Hospital,obligation%20to%20evidence%20likely%20prejudice%20on%20the%20defendant.
Lump sum awards for future loss of earnings
In Irani -v- Duchon [2019] EWCA Civ 1846
— Read on www.hilldickinson.com/insights/articles/lump-sum-awards-future-loss-earnings
Introducing new claims after the expiry of limitation: the facts have got to be ‘in issue
— Read on www.hilldickinson.com/insights/articles/introducing-new-claims-after-expiry-limitation-facts-have-got-be-‘-issue’
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Coronavirus: masks
Norway to pay compensation for AstraZeneca side effects
— Read on www.rt.com/news/528174-norway-astrazeneca-vaccine-compensations/
GOV.UK Coronavirus dashboard
— Read on coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map/cases
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Coronavirus: north east variant
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Anti-Palestinian racism 🇵🇸
Chief Coroner’s Guidance, Advice and Law Sheets
— Read on www.judiciary.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/office-chief-coroner/guidance-law-sheets/coroners-guidance/
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Boris Johnson population control
Met Police should release information on British WikiLeaks journalists passed to US, tribunal told
— Read on www.computerweekly.com/news/252503761/Met-Police-should-release-information-on-British-WikiLeaks-journalists-passed-to-US-tribunal-told
Farid al-Atrash
— Read on www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/4/israel-arrests-palestinian-rights-lawyer-after-anti-abbas-protest
RCEM: “We have a serious problem in Urgent & Emergency Care”
— Read on www.rcem.ac.uk/RCEM/News/News_2021/RCEM_serious_problem_in_Emergency_Care.aspx
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BDS #Boycott Puma
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U.K. police watch: Leicestershire
A Vaccine Damage Payment is a one-off tax-free payment of £120,000 if you’re severely disabled as a result of vaccination against certain diseases – what you’ll get, eligibility and applying
Civil procedure.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/legal-updates/accepting-part-36-offers-after-21-days/5109047.article
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Miners’ pensions
COVID-19: Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines linked to mild heart inflammation but benefits still outweigh risks
— Read on news.sky.com/story/covid-19-moderna-and-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccines-linked-to-mild-heart-inflammation-but-benefits-still-outweigh-risks-12352560
The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that wearing a mask reduced transmissions of COVID-19. Here are the studies that prove it.
— Read on news.sky.com/story/covid-19-what-does-the-science-actually-say-about-face-masks-12349337
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Afghanistan
Unite general secretary candidate Howard Beckett has opponents worried, if the level of the smears thrown at him by both Establishment media and supporters of other candidates. Skwawkbox already showed Beckett dismantling the smear that he intends to wind down the union’s unique ‘Community’ section – when in fact he plans to build it up…
— Read on skwawkbox.org/2021/04/27/video-beckett-takes-on-the-smears-1-making-money-from-miners-compensation/
A TYNESIDE legal firm has been criticised by industry watchdogs for its part in wrongly deducting cash from thousands of damages pay-outs won by sick miners.
— Read on www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/lawyers-rapped-taking-sick-miners-1423644
mineworkers’ compensation scheme
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/analysis/controversy-continues-over-miners-claims/51890.article
Government’s Mass Infection Plan
Pushed by Great Barrington Declaration Lobbying Effort to End COVID Protections
— Read on bylinetimes.com/2021/07/08/governments-mass-infection-plan-pushed-by-great-barrington-declaration-lobbying-effort-to-end-covid-protections/
An experimental drug may cure long Covid, medics believe after a 59-year-old man given the medicine saw his symptoms fade within hours, doctors at the the Erlangen Eye Clinic in Bavaria found.
— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9760025/Could-experimental-heart-drug-cure-long-Covid-Man-condition-saw-symptoms-hours.html
Asbestos: The Analysts’ Guide
— Read on www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg248.htm
How good ventilation dramatically reduces the risk of inhaling tiny airborne pathogens.
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rcnl
If the environment is musty and stuffy the ventilation is probably inadequate.
Carbon dioxide metres can be used. If there is a build up of carbon dioxide then that is indicative of poor ventilation. If the carbon dioxide level is less than 1,000 parts per million then that suggests that the ventilation is good. If it’s bigger than 1,500 parts per million it’s probably inadequate.
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Legal costs: fee remissions
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ONS infection survey
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U.K. police watch: the Met
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Papers re: the attack on Iraq
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Asbestos cases are not budgeted
Clinical negligence claims, Secondary Victims and “proximity in time and space”: Polmear and Anor v Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust – Farrar’s Building Barristers Chambers
— Read on www.farrarsbuilding.co.uk/clinical-negligence-claims-secondary-victims-and-proximity-in-time-and-space-polmear-and-anor-v-royal-cornwall-hospitals-nhs-trust/
A summary of Martin Spencer J’s decision in the psychiatric injury case of Young v Downey [2020] EWHC 3457 (QB) by Philip Turton and Katie McFarlane. An essential element of nervous shock claims by secondary victims is a perception of risk to the primary victim.
— Read on www.ropewalk.co.uk/knowledge-sharing/blog/personal-injury/1764/young-v-downey-a-commentary
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