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Disabled mother-of-five launches lobby group after 20 years of family court injustice

By John Pring on 11th May 2017 Category: Human Rights

Disabled mother-of-five launches lobby group after 20 years of family court injustice
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A disabled mother-of-five has described how having to fight the courts repeatedly for nearly two decades for the right to keep her children has led her to set up a pressure group for disabled parents. Joanna* had her four oldest children […]

Questions for children’s hospital over death of Nancy Wise

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Human Rights, News Archive

Questions for children’s hospital over death of Nancy Wise
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A children’s hospital is facing urgent questions over why it appears to have failed to tell a coroner that its actions caused the death of a disabled 12-year-old girl it had been treating. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) had […]

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