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Who should be so lucky in law?
A potential problem with negligence law is that two individuals may be injured in the exact same way yet only one of them may have actually been wronged so as to be the successful subject of a negligence action at law. Someone who is injured in a car accident for example, owing to the other...
Ban cosmetic surgery advertising
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons has published a six point plan aimed to show how steps may be taken to improve the regulation of the cosmetic industry. Following the recent concerns over possible rupturing of breast implants made by the former French Company Poly Implant...
EU offers 210 million Euros to farmers following E-Coli outbreak
The EU Farm Commissioner has offered to pay out 210 million Euros in compensation to farmers across Europe who made substantial losses during the recent E-Coli outbreak in the German City of Hamburg. It is estimated that the actual losses of those affected may total to 417 million euros per...
Drug trial victims are awarded compensation.
The leading pharmaceutical company Pfizer has begun to pay compensation settlements to families in Nigeria who were affected in an experimental drugs trial in 1996. The anti-meningitis drug Trovan was trialled on a number of children during an epidemic of the disease in Northern Nigeria,...
Nuclear test veterans win leave to appeal from Supreme Court.
Veterans who were involved in nuclear tests in Australia, on Christmas Island and in the Pacific Ocean between 1952 and 1958, have moved one step closer in their claim for compensation for a range of health defects following an alleged exposure to unsafe levels of radiation during their...
