Tag Archives: Leigh Day solicitors

Role of betting firms to be examined at Coroner’s inquest

The role of bookmakers, their shops and inducements to place bets will be considered as part of an inquest into the 2021 death of a 40-year-old man from Addiscombe. The inquest began yesterday at Croydon’s Coroner’s Court in Davis House. … Continue reading

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Wandle Forum in legal challenge to council over nature reserve

INSIDE SUTTON: If the council won’t take action against big business for failing to honour its planning commitments, then a coalition of around 150 community groups – backed up by a major legal firm – will. By ROSE HILL The … Continue reading

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Council settles legal challenge by blind man over postal voting

A Croydon resident who is registered blind has won a legal challenge brought against the council, which claimed that it had failed to make reasonable adjustments to make postal voting more accessible for him and other people with visual impairments. … Continue reading

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Family let down by police and officials over 22-year-old’s death

An inquest into the death in Caterham last year of 22-year-old Hannah Aitken has found that she died after taking a poisonous substance which she ordered online from abroad. Paramedics who treated her were not carrying the antidote and had … Continue reading

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Thames Water faces £159m courtroom challenge over pollution

A week after precautionary checks for contamination in the water supply in Beckenham and Penge, the failing privatised utility company is forced to issue bottled supplies to residents in a village in the Surrey constituency of Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt … Continue reading

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Former Whitgift teacher given 4-year sentence for child abuse

A former teacher at Whitgift School was yesterday given a four-year prison sentence for abusing boys at the private school in the 1980s. The school could now face a class action legal case brought on behalf of three victims because … Continue reading

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