| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 3701
Location: near Amble, Northumberland
|
 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: Prisoner saved from suicide gets £575,000 payout |
 |
|
http://express.lineone.net/news_detail.html?sku=1037
Another example of how Britain is going down the tubes....
Interesting to see how much, if anything, that his victim got.
I though suicide was still illegal in the UK - if so, how can preventing someone from taking their own life be subject to litigation? Does this also mean that the police won't now be able to talk people down from high buildings and bridges? (It would stop the centre of Newcastle grinding to a halt every time someone climbs up onto the Tyne Bridge and threatens to jump, causing the police to shut all the roads around it!)
Is it me? 
_________________
Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 9955
Location: UK
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Was he in bad health and the prison service didn't reconise this? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 3701
Location: near Amble, Northumberland
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| mark occomore wrote: | | Was he in bad health and the prison service didn't reconise this? |
No-one's saying - must be part of a gag order that makes up part of the out-of-court settlement.
I thought people were up in arms about the rate of suicides in prison, especially among those on remand. If prison officers are going to fall foul of this sort of thing, they may not exactly rush to the scene of the next attempt in time to stop it (and then presumably get done for negligence!).
Someone raised an interesting point at work today - they wondered whether if I (as one of the first-aiders) came across someone not breathing in one of the rooms at work, started CPR and brought them around, would I get sued if it turned out to be a bona fide suicide attempt?
_________________
Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
MIKERAPHONE
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 301
Location: Bury..home of the World famous Black Pudding!!
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I suppose next a prisoner who wants to escape and is stopped by Prison Officers will claim that is a breach of his Rights.
How you can try to commit suicide and fail then expect to receive compensation is beyond me. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Posts: 1553
Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Cherskiy,
When the company I used to work for removed the immunity from our first aiders, they resigned en masse!
_________________
Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
MIKERAPHONE
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 301
Location: Bury..home of the World famous Black Pudding!!
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Imagine if you are a doctor on an plane and someone has a heart attack.
Instinct is help him immediately till the plane lands.
But what if the Doctor thinks if i do assist and he dies will i get sued.?
Dreadful situation but surely as a doctor you would just dive in and help to save the life.
Makes you doubt whether it is worth getting involved in the first place. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 3701
Location: near Amble, Northumberland
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Behind Geddon's Wall wrote: | Cherskiy,
When the company I used to work for removed the immunity from our first aiders, they resigned en masse! |
We'd do the same if it was taken away from us. Mind you, there was a struggle to get enough of us to do it in the first place so I don't think they'll want to alienate us in a hurry.
_________________
Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
