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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.”
Maggie Bowden was a trailblazing campaigning lawyer at Birnberg and Thompsons, women’s organiser of the Communist Party, and general secretary of Liberation
GEOFF BOTTOMS, who has worked in a palliative care hospice for 11 years, argues the postcode lottery for proper end-of-life care must be ended to give the terminally ill choice and agency
When a couple moves in downstairs, gentrification begins with waffles and coffee, and proceeds via horticultural sabotage to legal action
