Brea Carney-Jones

Elderly people may be vulnerable to injuries from falls in care homes. This can sometimes be as a result of one or more failures by the care home to provide adequate support, for example, a lack of supervision or appropriate mobility aids. Sometimes...

It recently emerged that the Jobcentre were using a form which encouraged people with disabilities and chronic illnesses to ‘downplay’ their conditions in an attempt to secure employment. The form advised prospective employees to avoid using...

Many people struggle following an accident, mentally as well as physically. Injuries to mental health caused by accidents can be just as debilitating as many physical injuries and often accompany physical injuries or are even caused by them. Mental injury...

The London Fire Brigade (the brigade) has warned of a risk to the elderly as 101 out of 177 premises are told to address safety concerns. The concerns follow a one-off series of in-depth fire safety inspections by the brigade in light of a...

A former junior solicitor, who was suspended from practice earlier this year for backdating four letters to make it look as if she had progressed a clinical negligence case, has now been struck off by the High Court. In Solicitors Regulation Authority...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a regulator which aims to prevent workplace death, injury or ill health. The HSE investigate reportable injuries, diseases, dangerous occurrences and concerns raised by workers, the public or others to...

The Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’) has recently published a new report, ‘driving improvement’, which considers the experiences of care providers who have been rated as ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’....