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England’s deputy chief medical officer is under fire for claiming the UK has been an ‘exemplar in preparedness’.
— Read on uk.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/coronavirus-government-advisers-lancet-091902948.html
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Coronavirus: Care Homes
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Coronavirus: care homes
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English: Infographics
Infographics
— Read on www.grammarcheck.net/infographics/
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Coronavirus: PPE
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Coronavirus: 12KBW
Care providers say government did not discuss key Exercise Cygnus concerns with them
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/revealed-the-secret-report-that-gave-ministers-warning-of-care-home-coronavirus-crisis
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Coronavirus: testing figures
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Coronavirus: figures early May 2020
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Coronavirus: PPE
A new strain has come: Meet Spike D614G, the new & improved coronavirus
— Read on www.rt.com/news/487849-coronavirus-mutating-contagious-strain/amp/
My Dispatch: DM News for the Myotonic Community.
— Read on mailchi.mp/myotonic/my-dispatch-dm-news-for-the-myotonic-community-2020-april
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FTP: Mays Abu Ghosh
Mays Abu Ghosh
— Read on secure.everyaction.com/GQ8nJegtLEGMybuTY-YRNQ2
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Cuba: International workers’ day
Guidance to avoid examining systemic failures is ‘very worrying’, says Labour
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/29/inquests-nhs-staff-deaths-ppe-shortages
Palestine Solidarity Campaign defeats UK Government over pensions divestment – Palestine Solidarity Campaign
— Read on www.palestinecampaign.org/palestine-solidarity-campaign-defeats-uk-government-over-pensions-divestment/
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Coronavirus: USA
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Coronavirus: PPE survey
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Coronavirus: PPE failings
Group says nudity is ‘a symbol of how vulnerable we are without protection’
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/german-doctors-pose-naked-in-protest-at-ppe-shortages
Widely Used Surgical Masks Are Putting Health Care Workers At Serious Risk – Kaiser Health News
— Read on khn.org/news/widely-used-surgical-masks-are-putting-health-care-workers-at-serious-risk/amp/
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 were amended, some of these amendments were quite significant. To show the amendments in a simpler manner we have shown the amendments in red. The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation 1.— (1) These Regulations may be cited as the…
— Read on lawinthetimeofcorona.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/the-health-protection-coronavirus-regulations-as-amended-the-amendments-highlighted/
There are now a large number of Regulations that deal with Coronavirus. This is an opportune time to list them, summarise their contents and provide links. The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) Regulations 2020 – These Regulations provide that a person who is isolating himself from others in accordance with advice on coronavirus is…
— Read on lawinthetimeofcorona.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/coronavirus-regulations-the-list-summaries-and-links-to-make-your-life-easier/
The national and global response to the spread of COVID-19 continues to develop quickly and our collective knowledge of the virus is growing by the second.
— Read on www.gov.uk/government/news/coronavirus-covid-19-scientific-evidence-supporting-the-uk-government-response
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WHO: World Malaria Day 2020
Lusitana and the world’s first malaria vaccine
— Read on www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/lusitana-and-the-world-s-first-malaria-vaccine
Covid-19: Experts question guidance to reuse PPE | The BMJ
— Read on www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1577
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Coronavirus: stool samples
Human Rights Watch said today. Abdullah al-Hamid
— Read on www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/24/saudi-arabia-rights-pioneer-dies-prison
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Yemen
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PPE how to wear a mask
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Coronavirus: patients turned away
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Whiplash reforms
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FTP: Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin – Wikipedia
— Read on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
Last week, we noted that service of documents abroad via the Foreign Process Section of the Royal Courts of Justice had been suspended. The implications of that decision are significant. Specifically, it may cause huge problems for service in cases involving EU-domiciled defendants. On one analysis, it will in some cases be impossible to serve.…
— Read on internationalandtravellawblog.com/2020/04/21/coronavirus-mini-series-6-a-big-problem-for-service-on-eu-domiciled-defendants/
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Coronavirus- where did it start?
New costs judgment sees master pore over almost 1,000 claimed-for items.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/fee-earners-told-they-cant-claim-for-photocopying-and-visiting-clients/5103928.article
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Judges: Lady Arden
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Costs: QOCS – Ho
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Coronavirus PPE
twitter.com/channel4news/status/1251574968376320009
https://www.lbcnews.co.uk/uk-news/british-ppe-equipment-being-shipped-abroad-as-nhs/
https://twitter.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1252614350977843200?s=21
https://insights.doughtystreet.co.uk/post/102g5e3/at-the-front-line-of-covid-19-forgotten-victims
The National Police Chief’s Council and the College of Policing have reproduced guidance from the CPS as to what constitutes a reasonable excuse to leave the place where you live. It is available here. THE GUIDANCE The guidance states that some earlier statements on the legal test were wrong. The test is “reasonable excuse”.…
— Read on lawinthetimeofcorona.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/what-constitutes-a-reasonable-excuse-to-leave-the-place-where-you-live-police-guidance/
UK lockdown rules – what you can and can’t do explained in new police guidance
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-lockdown-rules-what-you-18104739
For the last 20 years the boundaries of vicarious liability have expanded. In this article Roger Quickfall discusses how the Supreme Court has brought much needed clarity..
— Read on www.parklaneplowden.co.uk/news/vicarious-liability-on-the-move-no-longer
The High Court has today handed down judgment in the VW NOx Emissions Group Litigation – the class action arising out of what is often described as the ‘emissions scandal’. Following a two-week trial of two preliminary issues, Mr Justice Waksman has found that the controversial engine software function amounts to a ‘defeat device’ for the purpose of EU law, and that previous findings of the relevant German authorities were binding on the High Court in that respect.
— Read on www.blackstonechambers.com/news/crossley-ors-v-volkswagen-aktiengesellschaft-the-vw-nox-emissions-group-litigation/
The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has been tasked with reviewing the guideline hourly rates (GHR), it has emerged, with costs specialists urging it to revert to the old system of setting them locally.
— Read on www.litigationfutures.com/news/mr-backs-review-of-guideline-hourly-rates
Guideline hourly rates can be found at: http://www.gov.uk/guidance/solicitors-guideline-hourly-rates
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Palestinian Prisoners Day
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Coronavirus in animals
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Chris Day
Update on £700K to Crush a Junior Doctor – Don’t Let Them Get Away With It
Dear Supporter,
Cover up complete!
The Court of Appeal have confirmed that the settlement agreement that shut down my whistleblowing case in 2018 can never be challenged. This is despite an earlier signed and sealed Court Order allowing us to it challenge the settlement. This was astonishingly rescinded and then later described as a clerical error (more detail).
The substance of our application that challenged the clerical error and the Court’s reasons for rejecting our appeal has been simply ignored by the Court. You can judge for yourself by reading our application and comparing it with the Court’s response to it.
This means that the circumstances at which my training number and path to consultant was deleted will never be heard by any court. More worryingly, the NHS are relying on a clause in my settlement agreement to prevent the Court scrutinising HOW junior doctors were argued out of whistleblowing protection in 2015. This scandalous process was described by 2 MPs in the House of Commons on 3 July 2019 (Video).
Justin Madders;
“Health Education England effectively sought to remove around 54,000 doctors from whistleblowing protection by claiming that it was not their employer. Four years and hundreds of thousands of pounds later, it eventually backed down and accepted that it should be considered an employer after all.”
Sir Norman Lamb;
“ls the hon. Gentleman aware that the contract between Health Education England and the trusts, which demonstrates the degree of control that Health Education England has over the employment of junior doctors, was not disclosed for some three years in that litigation? lt was drafted by the very law firm that was making loads of money out of defending the case against Chris Day. I have raised this with Health Education England, but it will not give me a proper response because it says that the case is at an end. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that this is totally unacceptable and that it smocks of unethical behaviour for that law firm to make money out of not disclosing a contract that it itself drafted?”
There is some good news. A South London Judge has directed that Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Health Education England must attend a 10 day hearing in March 2021 to defend the allegations that they made false statements to an MP and the press about my case after the settlement. The content of this hearing is set out in this letter.
It is bad for everyone that the reality of how junior doctors were argued out of whistleblowing protection has been hidden from the courts. It is bad for me that I will never get the circumstances at which my training number was deleted scrutinised.
Thanks again for your support and I am sorry the news could not be better. I still believe it is important to push on with what we have been allowed to challenge (however shambolic).
Best wishes,
Dr Chris Day
‘A National Scandal’: A Timeline of the UK Government’s Woeful Response to the Coronavirus Crisis – Byline Times
— Read on bylinetimes.com/2020/04/11/a-national-scandal-a-timeline-of-the-uk-governments-woeful-response-to-the-coronavirus-crisis/
by Sport Resolutions’ panel member John Mehrzad QC and Joe Bryan, both from Littleton Chambers’ Sports Law Group.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/legal-updates/legal-realities-of-an-extension-to-the-football-season/5103804.article
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FTP: Nasrin Sotoudeh
http://www.nasrinsotoudeh.com/
Lawyer sentenced to decades in prison and 148 lashes, husband writes on Facebook
— Read on www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh-jailed-for-38-years-in-iran
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World Health Organization
madness.”
“For all our sake, stop this madness.
— Read on www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/blog/deadly-failures-have-placed-millions-of-workers-at-unnecessary-coronavirus-exposure-risk
Supreme Court brings law on vicarious liability to a halt in decision that Barclays is not liable for abuse by the GP it arranged to screen its employees.
— Read on ukhumanrightsblog.com/2020/04/03/vicarious-liability-the-new-boundary-dispute/
NHS Resolution launches new indemnity scheme to support NHS coronavirus response – NHS Resolution
— Read on resolution.nhs.uk/2020/04/03/nhs-resolution-launches-new-indemnity-scheme-to-support-nhs-coronavirus-response/
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VW emissions case
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Human rights: refugees in Greece
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Covert recordings (12KBW)
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Coronavirus legislation (12KBW)
How Does Keir Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet Stack Up On Human Rights? | EachOther
— Read on eachother.org.uk/keir-starmer-shadow-cabinet-human-rights/
knowledge.
— Read on www.litigationfutures.com/news/judge-upholds-acceptance-of-mistaken-0-part-36-offer
A company must disclose documents held by its subsidiaries and which it controls, the High Court has ruled, in a case handled under the disclosure pilot.
— Read on www.litigationfutures.com/news/company-must-disclose-documents-held-by-subsidiaries
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Royal Mail during Covid 19
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Keir Starmer
https://www.bing.com/search?q=keir+starmer&form=APIPH1&PC=APPL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Starmer
twitter.com/keepleftofleft/status/1246427852733644801
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-lobbyist-funded-labours-new-leader
https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1254007418884890626?s=21
https://twitter.com/thegrayzonenews/status/1269070916941725696?s=21
https://twitter.com/100_alpha/status/1276493832830492674?s=21
https://twitter.com/hxmzaliy/status/1276254297148317696?s=21
https://twitter.com/rickycoxon/status/1282800544457920515?s=21
https://twitter.com/aaronbastani/status/1366855637775376388?s=21
https://twitter.com/andrewfeinstein/status/1375517664135630848?s=21
https://twitter.com/neildavodavies1/status/1510576690103209989?s=21&t=R5TKXsfle50D1OVZSR5F6g
Trilateral commission:
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/obiter/legal-comrades-show-starmer-the-red-card/5107377.article
https://twitter.com/derbychrisw/status/1517761576782151680?s=21&t=scpnSy0MUPCmq1_evYvpcA
The term “PPE” has become one of general comment and concern. Here our newest recruit at Kings Jasmine Chan explains the Regulations, the duties owed and the government guidance in relation to PPE and coronavirus. PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) is equipment that protects its wearer against health or safety risks at work. It can…
— Read on lawinthetimeofcorona.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/personal-protective-equipment-the-basic-legal-principles-and-important-government-guidance/
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Covid 19 PPE update
Although the position is fast-moving and guidance is expected to be given in due course by the Law Society, it is presently understood that remote video | Hardwicke
— Read on hardwicke.co.uk/is-it-possible-to-take-a-statutory-declaration-by-skype-video-or-similar-technology/
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Whistleblowing
UK supreme court says retailer not to blame for actions of employee with grudge
— Read on www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/01/morrisons-is-not-liable-for-massive-staff-data-leak-court-rules
Whilst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is having a unprecedented impact upon human behaviour, businesses should also be aware of the risks to legal persons and
— Read on www.6pumpcourt.co.uk/news/mark-watson-qc-and-mark-davies-consider-the-new-health-protection-coronavirus-restrictions-england-regulations-2020-and-the-impact-on-businesses/
Although it is welcome the new Practice direction is a bit disappointing. It does not trust litigators at all (or not very much). Parties can agree extensions of up to 56 days, without permission of the Court, but not beyond that. Extensions beyond 56 days have to be approved by the Court, albeit these…
— Read on www.civillitigationbrief.com/2020/04/02/the-new-practice-direction-the-limitations-on-the-power-to-extend-time-by-agreement-and-making-an-application/
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