Investigation into Leicestershire Police contact with Valdo Calocane before Nottingham killings reopened
An investigation into the contact Leicestershire Police had with Valdo Calocane a month before he killed Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham in June 2023 is to be reopened after representations by their families and our legal team.
Solicitor Neil Hudgell said: “We have repeatedly raised serious concerns over a lack of thoroughness, which in our view made this investigation insufficient and incomplete. Any other outcome than what has been announced today would have been perverse.”
Capture Post Office conviction cases submitted for review
Hudgell Solicitors continues to represent former sub-postmasters, and relatives, in seeking to overturn Post Office convictions relating to the use of ‘Capture’ accounting software in the 1990s.
We now have 21 cases sat with the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to be considered for referral to the Court of Appeal.
We are also supporting families to gather evidence ready to submit to a new redress scheme for Capture victims who were sacked or made to pay back alleged branch shortfalls.
We had a positive meeting with the Government on February 27th, at which redress and compensation were discussed.
Client story: Daughter fights to clear mother’s name & Father never recovered from accusations of fraud and theft
Family say vulnerable woman died of ‘non-intentional starvation’ after social services ‘failed and forgot’ her
A vulnerable woman with schizophrenia was left to starve to death in her social housing flat as she was ‘failed and forgotten’ by adult social care, her family say.
Relatives of Laura Winham, 41, had been estranged from her, having reluctantly kept their distance at her insistence, as her schizophrenia caused her to believe they would harm her. Following an inquest into her death, Laura’s siblings Roy and Nicky said:
Laura should never have lost her life to mental health and we hope no other family goes through what we have, trying to navigate the mental health service with no prior experience and certainly not enough support.
Client story: Family say social services ‘failed and forgot’ her
Claims Against GOSH and Yaser Jabbar Orthopaedic Surgeon
Hudgell Solicitors is representing a large number of families relating to their child treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by surgeon Dr Yaser Jabbar. The hospital is reviewing 721 cases for potential harm caused to children.
Our team is led by solicitors Caroline Murgatroyd and Elizabeth Maliakal, after reviews outlined unacceptable assessments, examinations, clinical decision-making, and treatments of patients which brought no benefit, and were found to have caused harm.
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