Close encounters of the greedy kind

Hilsborough Families have to wait 22 years for Parliament to act. Ian Tomlinson only got action because brave individuals actually videoed an assault. With media readily available to record injustices, it beggars belief that so-called highly intelligent people can act so deliberately foolish or down right criminal.

This is the creeping corruption that would have had the man on the Blackpool open top tram prosecuted. It's like the 640 plus LEADERS of the people trying to convince a cripple on the Brew that they can't decipher their claims forms!?!?  "Duck Ponds?"; the script for a Marxs Bros farce...  

"Have you tried to claim disability, Mr Member of Parliament?"

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Justice minister stripped of powers

The justice minister, Jonathan Djanogly, has been stripped of his responsibility to regulate firms that "ambulance chase" the public following a Guardian investigation that revealed how he and his family could profit from controversial changes to legal aid he was piloting in parliament.

Claims management companies "ambulance chase" the sick, the sexually harassed and the sacked and put them in touch with no-win no-fee lawyers. The firms collect a payment known as a referral fee. In May the Legal Services Board, the independent body which advises minsters on legal regulation, had said the case for banning referral fees "had not been made out". Four months later – without any consultation or impact assessment – Djanogly announced a ban on referral fees in personal injury cases, but effectively excluded his brother-in-law's businesses, which deal with employment law.

Djanogly admitted last week that Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, had launched an inquiry into the apparent conflict of interest. In a letter to Labour's justice spokesman, Andy Slaughter, who had raised the matter, O'Donnell said that while there is "no suggestion of any impropriety in relation" to Djanogly's brother-in-law's firms that "for the avoidance of doubt decisions about the regulation of individual (claims management companies) should henceforth be handled by another minister". Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

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