Health

Sir Mark Hedley on what needs to be considered as a result of this amendment to the assisted dying Bill

Marie Law, Head of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the many benefits of oral fluid drug testing for child welfare and protection matters

Calls to a legal helpline for whistleblowers are on the rise, with demand highest in the health and social work sectors and from those on lower incomes.

Former pupils of Treloar’s College who were infected with contaminated blood during medical research in the 1970s and 1980s have lost their bid to bring a group litigation order (GLO).

In the first of a series of articles tracking the passage of the Bill, Michael Zander KC reports on slow progress in committee

Casey Randall, Head of Genetics at AlphaBiolabs, answers some of the most common questions regarding relationship DNA testing for court

Leading drug, alcohol and DNA testing laboratory, AlphaBiolabs, has made a £500 donation to Beatson Cancer Charity in Glasgow as part of its Giving Back campaign. 

Recent caselaw on vicarious liability, quantum and the process of seeking permission for a civil claim for injuries occurring while committing an imprisonable offence for which the potential claimant was later convicted, are all discussed in NLJ’s personal injury update column this week. Vijay Ganapathy, partner at Leigh Day specialising in industrial disease and complex injury cases, explores the issues in each case.

Is the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as radical as many critics would have us believe? In this week’s NLJ, Professor Graham Zellick KC, a Senior Master of the Bench, asserts it is not.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is not the seminal, fundamental reform it is said to be, argues Graham Zellick