Pages On: Criminal Injury and Assault
For the most part, Britain is a safe place. However, violent crime is a real and present danger and can cause serious damage to victims of criminal assault. If you have been injured by a criminal, there is a scheme set up to help victims claim compensation. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) is set up to help, and our team of solicitors can guide you through the process of claiming, and build a successful case for you.
Paramedic compensated for broken nose after being headbutted by assailant
Posted: 1 May 2016
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Head and Brain Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A paramedic from Isleworth, who has opted to remain unnamed, has received an undisclosed figure in compensation for an attack that took place when he was called to an altercation in Acton, West London. The 46-year-old was responding to a call from a chip shop owner, who was being distressed by a customer who seemed to be very much under the influence of alcohol in the middle of the afternoon. The paramedic team attended the disturbance, but the assailant refused to receive medical attention from the paramedics. He seemed to leave the scene…
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Coalville woman receives compensation following death threat
Posted: 12 April 2016
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Employer Negligence, Workplace Injuries
A woman has been awarded £40,000 from Leicestershire County Council following a serious incident at her place of work. 60-year-old Diana Gruber, from Thringstone, Coalville, had been working as a kitchen assistant at the Coalville Resource Centre in Leicestershire for 10 years. The centre was being run to offer assistance to adults with learning difficulties, and Mrs Gruber had enjoyed working with both her workmates and visitors alike. It was during a session where she was serving teas at a hatch to people, when a male visitor approached her and started to…
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Army death wrongly recorded as suicide
Posted: 15 February 2016
Posted in: Armed Forces Injuries, Criminal Injury and Assault, Workplace Injuries, Wrongful & Accidental Death
8-year-old Pte Cheryl James died at Deepcut barracks in 1995, which, at the time, was recorded as suicide. A second inquest into her death has, however, recognised that her death, originally recorded as suicide amid allegations of bullying and abuse at the barracks, may not have been suicide. Twenty years later, the army has apologised to her family, for “failing” young recruits. The inquest heard from Brig John Donnelly, the Army’s director of personal services, that the army had not been fully aware of the risks of leaving young soldiers to carry…
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Thousands paid to Scottish teachers in accident compensation
Posted: 30 December 2015
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Head and Brain Injuries, School Accidents, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip
An annual report has revealed that a total of £180,000 was paid out to Scottish teachers and lecturers in 2013/14 in compensation. This figure has shown a dramatic decrease on the previous year, where a total of £300,000 was paid out. The report highlighted the highest payment, which saw a teacher being awarded £50,000 after suffering severe injuries from falling and hitting their head on ice in the school playground. Another teacher won over £3,000 after accidentally being hit in the face with a musical instrument. Educational Institute of Scotland…
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NHS Scotland staff suffer 35,000 workplace injuries
Posted: 9 March 2015
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Workplace Injuries
Recently released figures have revealed that NHS staff members in Scotland have suffered 35,000 injuries at work over the past three years. The figures were released by the Scottish Liberal Democrats, showing that staff had suffered injuries ranging from needle wounds to serious falls, with the figures also covering stress-related injuries. The Scottish Liberal Democrats’ health spokesperson Jim Hume described the violence against staff in the NHS as “worrying”. Injuries between 2011 and 2013 saw the highest figure in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde at 9,583 injuries, followed by NHS…
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Fife faces huge medical negligence compensation bill
Posted: 30 January 2015
Posted in: Birth Injury, Criminal Injury and Assault, Medical Negligence, NHS Claims, Workplace Injuries
Fife’s NHS has recently been bombarded with a flood of medical negligence claims that could see them having to pay out £17million in compensation. Recent figures revealed that 77 claimants are currently seeking compensation for medical negligence, with one claiming over a birth defect. Furthering this, they also face a further 31 cases of liability lodged by NHS members of staff, seven of whom are claiming for alleged assaults by patients. Critics have raised the point that NHS Fife’s recent flood of claims is the continuation of a pattern recognised…
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1,700 public service workers attacked in the last year
Posted: 31 October 2014
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Workplace Injuries
New figures have revealed that in the last year alone, a total of 1,700 Fife public service workers were violently assaulted while at work. The figures were released as part of UNISON’s annual survey of violent incidents, showing that in Fife 1,114 health board workers and 586 council employees were affected. It was also highlighted by the report that over the last eight years violent assaults on public service workers has almost doubled. The chairman of UNISON Scotland’s Health and Safety Committee, Scott Donohoe, said that better monitoring procedures needed to…
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Public service workers continue to be attacked
Posted: 28 October 2014
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Workplace Injuries
Recently released figures have revealed that violent attacks against public service workers in Scotland only continue to rise. A total of 37,052 incidents of violence were reported to employers this year, a rise of 3,363 reports in the twelve months previous, and an increase of 17,000 from 2006 when records began. It has been recognised that around 100 attacks on service staff take place in Scotland daily. Dave Watson, Unison’s Scottish organiser, said that these figures are “completely unacceptable” and that more should be done to protect those working in…
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Link found between inmate brain injuries and offending
Posted: 29 August 2014
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Head and Brain Injuries, Personal Injury
Researchers have called for more to be done to raise awareness within the criminal justice system of how brain injuries and offending can often be related. Recent reports have found that the level of brain injuries among offenders in custody is far higher than the general population. Research conducted by Tom McMillan, professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University of Glasgow, said that his study, which looked at three prisons in Glasgow, found 23% of prisoners to have suffered a head injury in their life, 50% of which were classified as…
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12-year-old cyclist injured in hit-and-run on rural road
Posted: 1 August 2014
Posted in: Bicycle Accidents, Criminal Injury and Assault, Road Traffic Accidents
A 12-year-old boy was the victim of a hit-and-run incident yesterday while he cycled on a rural road near his home. The police are currently looking for an orange Mitsubishi that had been overtaking the boy when he hit his bike at around 3pm yesterday afternoon. The accident happened in Dumfries and Galloway in Southern Scotland. Following the incident, the boy was taken to Dumfries Infirmary for treatment, and was later released. Police have launched an investigation, appealing for anyone with any information to come forward. They are currently trying to…
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NHS Lothian fined following patient attack on staff member
Posted: 12 September 2013
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Employer Negligence, Head and Brain Injuries, Workplace Injuries
NHS Lothian pleaded guilty last week to two charges of employer negligence after one of their nurses was violently attacked by a schizophrenic patient in March 2009. The nurse had thirty years of experience with difficult patients and managed to break free, but sustained injuries to her head after the patient ripped out her hair and “violently” shook her head. Magdalene Anderson was attacked from behind in the patient’s home in East Lothian. The patient, who has suffered thirty years of psychiatric illness, had previously attacked another NHS nurse with a knife. Due…
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Children at Edinburgh primary school targeted by airgun pellets
Posted: 3 June 2013
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Personal Injury, School Accidents
An arrest has been made following the terror caused by an airgun attack that took place on Thursday at an Edinburgh primary school. The airgun-user mysteriously targeted a total of 10 children as they were playing in the playground of their school, Gilmerton Primary, at lunchtime. One child, a young girl who was attacked with her friends, described her minor injuries: “I got shot twice on my thumb, and it started bleeding”. Other children reported redness and bruising following the incident — but luckily there were no fatal injuries. Shortly after the…
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