‘The Government is being taken to judicial review over alleged discrimination in its payment scheme for people living with HIV and the Hepatitis C virus.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th February 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A blundering nurse whose patient died after she gave him the wrong type of blood has been spared jail.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th February 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Thousands of people with haemophilia and others infected during surgery and childbirth in England are to get increased ex-gratia payments for being infected with the hepatitis C virus (Hep C) and/or HIV during the NHS contaminated blood scandal more than 30 years ago.’
The Guardian, 13th July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘On World Blood Donor Day, the government says it’s going to review a law which means that gay men can’t donate for 12 months after having sex.’
BBC News, 14th June 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Victims of the worst contaminated blood scandal in the NHS’s history say they have been betrayed by the Government after plans were revealed to reduce their annual payouts. About 5,000 people – many of them haemophiliacs – who were infected with HIV, hepatitis C or both after receiving infected blood in the 1970s and 1980s, have been sent letters from the Department of Health asking for their views on “reforms” that will leave them up to £7,000 a year worse off.’
The Independent, 21st March 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The government will conduct a review of the rules prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating blood, the public health minister Jane Ellison has announced.’
The Guardian, 26th November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Alex Verdan QC, of 4 Paper Buildings, reviews recent important judgments in private law children cases.’
Family Law Week, 28th January 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Three men who contracted hepatitis C from contaminated imported blood have begun a legal case in the UK to challenge the compensation scheme.’
BBC News, 15th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An NHS Trust v Child B and Mr and Mrs B [2014] EWHC 3486 (Fam) – I posted earlier this year a discussion of Ian McEwan’s pellucid and moving account of the difficulties encountered by judges when steering between the rock of parental faith and the hard place of children’s best interests (The Children Act, 2014). This judgment, although handed down four months ago, has just been published, and confirms that judges may be resolute, however politely, in the face of parents’ insistence that they know what is best for their children.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th December 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“You would have thought the law would be entirely behind a person who intervenes to help a stranger in distress. Indeed most civil law countries impose a positive duty to rescue, which means that if a person finds someone in need of medical help, he or she must take all reasonable steps to seek medical care and render best-effort first aid. A famous example of this was the investigation into the photographers at the scene of Lady Diana’s fatal car accident: they were suspected of violation of the French law of “non-assistance à personne en danger” (deliberately failing to provide assistance to a person in danger), which can be punished by up to 5 years imprisonment and a fine of up to 70,000 euros. But the position in common law countries like the UK and the United States is completely different: you can watch a child drown and not be held to account.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The lifetime ban on blood donations by men who have sex with men is expected to be lifted in the UK.”
BBC News, 8th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R (Moore) v Skipton Fund Ltd [2010] EWHC 3070 (Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 308
“For the purposes of a claim for an ex gratia payment from public funds, there was nothing irrational or unfair in requiring certain people infected with hepatitis C through treatment with NHS blood or blood products prior to September 1991, to show that spontaneous clearance of the virus after a period of six months had occurred.”
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A woman who was infected with hepatitis C during a blood transfusion more than 20 years ago has lost a High Court bid for compensation.”
BBC News, 1st December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former model infected with hepatitis C after being given a blood transfusion more than 20 years ago is challenging the legality of the Government’s compensation scheme.”
The Independent, 23rd November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An award-winning composer who contracted HIV and Hepatitis C through NHS treatment with contaminated blood products today won his legal challenge over compensation payments.”
The Independent, 16th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An award-winning composer who contracted HIV and Hepatitis C through NHS treatment with contaminated blood products has won a legal challenge over compensation payments.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government will today come under pressure to forge a new compensation deal for thousands of people with haemophilia who were given blood tainted with HIV and hepatitis C, as a long-awaited report from an independent inquiry into the scandal is published.”
The Guardian, 23rd February 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Cardiff couple infected with HIV via contaminated blood products are taking their fight to the British courts.”
BBC News, 3rd September 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers for a couple infected with HIV through contaminated blood products are hoping to reopen the issue of government responsibility for the scandal in the British courts.”
The Guardian, 3rd September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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