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Bereavement damages: Unmarried Jakki Smith wins legal fight

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  • Bereavement damages: Unmarried Jakki Smith wins legal fight

    A woman has won her landmark battle for better legal rights for unmarried people who lose their partners. NHS worker Jakki Smith, from Chorley, Lancashire, took the government to court for breaching her human rights in denying her bereavement damages. A fixed sum of £12,980 is paid out if a…
    Read More ->http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-42152782



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    Last edited by Amethyst; 28th November 2017, 11:40:AM.
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    Re: Bereavement damages: Unmarried Jakki Smith wins legal fight

    There's another case coming up in Northern Ireland which will be quite pleased Jakki Smith won... the Supreme Court are sitting over there for an appeal on Siobhan Mclaughlin's case - https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2017-0035.html
    Whether section 39A(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 which provides for payment of a Widowed Parent’s Allowance is incompatible with Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights read with Article 8 and/or Article 1 of Protocol 1.
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