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A COURT ordered Somerset County Council yesterday to pay the six-figure legal costs of a disabled teenager removed from her family’s care without proper investigation of her circumstances.
Council social workers prevented the woman, now 20, from returning home because of bruises on her chest.
Despite her mother’s warning, social workers decided that bruises on the severely disabled woman were signs of “significant injury from someone or something other than herself.”
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
ANSELM ELDERGILL explains why the rule of law is fundamental to our liberty and welfare
Maggie Bowden was a trailblazing campaigning lawyer at Birnberg and Thompsons, women’s organiser of the Communist Party, and general secretary of Liberation
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors