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National Apprenticeship Week: Meet our apprentices!
To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2025, we spoke to our current apprentices about their roles & their advice for future apprentices
The new Personal Injury Discount Rate is now in effect
The Personal Injury Discount Rate, which applies to compensation paid upfront for future losses in clinical negligence claims in England, has been revised and the new rate of 0.5% applies to all claims settled on or after 11 January 2025.
Beware, don’t underestimate a voluntary police interview
Facing a voluntary police interview? Learn its seriousness, why legal support is crucial, how to protect your rights & navigate the process.
Podcast: Complaints handling and an introduction to negligence claims
Following his recent webinar healthcare litigation associate, Nigel Wood, gives an introduction to clinical negligence claims dentists may face, and gives an overview of best practices when it comes to handling patient complaints.
What can we learn from GMC cases?
We can learn a lot from the big GMC cases but there’s much to be usefully gleaned from the ‘run of the mill’ hearings. Dr Tania Francis reports.
Inquest podcast: Prison inquests
Season two, episode four: Prison inquests
Inquests podcast series – The interaction between inquests and civil proceedings
In the third of our inquests podcast series, associates Elspeth Rose and Jennifer Hovington give background and advice while discussing the interaction between inquests and civil proceedings.
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace consultation: the government’s response
The government has released its response to the consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, promising to further protections to employees who are victims of sexual harassment, whilst giving employers support to put measures in place to respond to the needs of their organisation, and provide explicit protections from third-party harassment.
Can denying the allegations against you be held against you?
Interesting decision in the case of Al Nageim v General Medical Council (Admin) this week. Mr Justice Knowles considered the issue of whether a doctor’s denial of allegations which are then found against them should be used against them when deciding whether their fitness to practise is impaired.
Hempsons’ crime team works fast to minimise client’s sentence
Amie Roadnight and Adam Smith of Hempsons’ crime team represented a client accused of driving whilst almost 4 times over the limit for cocaine.
6-month custodial sentence for exaggerated medical negligence damages claim
The case of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust v Linda Metcalf highlights the very serious consequences of dishonest and exaggerated claims against the NHS.
Hempsons Successfully Defends A&E Associate Specialist
Hempsons' Regulatory & Crime Team has successfully defended an Associate Specialist in Emergency Medicine, following a two-week Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing.
New Year partner and associate promotions
We are delighted to announce a new partner and several associate promotions, providing a major boost to our healthcare advisory, healthcare litigation, commercial and real estate teams.
Claimant found guilty of criminal act cannot claim damages against negligent NHS trust
The Supreme Court has now handed down its judgment in the long and sad case of Ecila Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust. The judgment puts to rest the issue of whether a claimant who has been found guilty of a criminal act can recover damages from the party whose original negligence gave rise to the situation where the claimant was able to commit the criminal act.