Prisoners are handed £41m in compensation in just three years for issues including lost property as well as in-custody injury or death EXCLUSIVE: Prisoners have been paid £40.8million in taxpayer funds since 2017 Some £11million was spent compensating the UK’s criminals in the year 2019/20 It comes after a record high year for prison violence … Read more
Windrush victims are in line for £10k payout as Priti Patel is due to announce increase in minimum amount of compensation Under the new reforms, those who can show an ‘impact’ on their life from the scandal will be immediately paid £10,000, according to The Sunday Times Compensation for Windrush scandal victims has been criticised … Read more
Two drunken friends who claimed they slipped down the same 18-inch-wide manhole face jail after launching an ‘extraordinarily implausible’ compensation case. Phil Craze, 54, and Shaun Barnicoat, 52, fell into the open drain in Bodmin, Cornwall, and were discovered lying face down with their legs dangling over the hole. Craze, a plasterer, claimed he had … Read more
A woman who grew her hair down past her bottom over 16 years has been awarded almost £6,000 in compensation after a botched dye job left her with two giant dreadlocks. Nurse Kimberley Gorton, 36, from Wilmslow, Cheshire only popped into her local salon for a semi-permanent colour to make her hair look extra shiny followed … Read more
Transgender woman who was regularly locked out of her Santander bank account ‘because she sounded like a man on the phone’ gets £1,000 compensation She got upset when Santander changed her title to Mx, when she wanted Ms The problems started for her when she called the bank about a transaction Despite clearing all the … Read more
A car crashed into the broadband cabinet at the end of my road a few weeks ago and since then my internet has been cutting out intermittently. I am working from home so this has been frustrating. On one day, I had no internet at all as Openreach tried to fix the issue. I am … Read more
Energy provider, Utilita, has agreed to pay £500,000 in compensation after it overcharged almost 40,000 customers. Ofgem, the industry watchdog, said prepayment customers were overcharged by a total of more than £125,000. Pre-payment customers are some of the most vulnerable as they are often those who struggle to pay their energy bills. Ofgem said the … Read more
French court backs news companies in landmark case against Google as they demand compensation from the billion dollar Silicon Valley giant for the copyrighted content it uses Paris appeals court ruled against Google and backed competition regulator Google had argued that it drives lucrative clicks to news sites it lists in searches But French press … Read more
Jailed crime boss serving 20 years for machine gun plot wins state compensation when his £1,500 blue Christian Louboutin trainers get lost in post on their way to prison Miekel Dixon-Nash’s £1,500 blue Christian Louboutin were lost in post to prison Gangster had them posted to him while serving 20 year sentence in Kent prison … Read more
Anger over time limit on troops’ claims for injuries amid warnings the new laws to protect soldiers from legal witch-hunts will block compensation bids New laws to protect British troops will put a time limit on compensation claims Defence spokesman John Healey said the new bill amounted to ‘penny-pinching’ Ministers hope the bill will end … Read more