Switalskis has appointed Bradie Pell as solicitor and head of its family law team in Sheffield. In her new role, Bradie will lead the Sheffield office while collaborating with the firm’s national family team directors to enhance Switalskis’ family law offering.

Medical negligence experts at Switalskis Solicitors say they support calls for an inquiry into a County Durham NHS Trust after an independent review found that more than 200 breast cancer and breast surgery patients suffered harm.

Elite-sport expert Rick Miller and solicitor Mark Hollinghurst explore how nutritional errors, medical oversights and high-performance pressures can lead to athlete harm — and when negligence law can help injured athletes seek justice.

To safeguard children, agencies must work together to provide stability, reliability and hope. However, this doesn’t always happen. For too many children who enter care, the systems designed to protect them instead add to their fears that they are unlovable and that no-one cares.

The County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has apologised to breast cancer patients, and their families, affected by the failings identified in an independent external review. More than 200 cases are being investigated at the Trust, which runs nine hospitals in the county.

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities encourages us to recognise the rights, experiences and needs of disabled people. For families who care for someone with a lifelong disability it’s often a worry how they will cope if you’re not there to protect them. Carers spend so much of their time worrying about the things they need to do for their loved one they forget about what they need to do for themselves.

Survivors of Medomsley Detention Centre continue to seek full acknowledgement of the abuse they suffered. Learn how decades of trauma, investigations and compensation efforts have shaped the ongoing fight for truth and justice.

David Greenwood, Head of Switalskis Child Abuse Compensation department, represents a woman who, as a pupil at St Bede’s School in Redhill in 1984, was subjected to repeated sexual abuse by David Tudor.