Unknown to many, the Department of Health has set a deadline for families seeking to claim repayment of care home fees, where it is felt that they were wrongly charged.  The cut off date is 30 September 2012.  Unless families disputing fees paid between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2011 register their claim before this date they will be unable to bring a claim.



Paula Nash, a partner with Shropshire &…

I have today posted the following piece from Kay Kelly, an associate in the Clinical Negligence department at Lanyon Bowdler, on the firm's blog http://blog.lblaw.co.uk/ - but am sharing it here too:

Kay says "As a solicitor working in the field of clinical negligence I was inspired to write after reading a very chilling article by Tim Rayment in this week’s Sunday Times Magazine entitled “The Killing Wards”. The article focused on the…