The family of 13-year-old Sophie Howard, from Cambridgeshire, who was killed by a falling branch in a public park in June 2011, have received an undisclosed payment from Yaxley Parish Council.

The tragedy happened on a week-day in Middletons Road Recreation Ground, near Peterborough, when Sophie was in the park sitting under a tree with some friends. She was not at school that day because of nationwide industrial action.

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Three people who contracted Legionnaires disease in Stoke-on-Trent have instructed law firm Irwin Mitchell to take legal action now that the “probable source” has been found, according to the BBC.

The number of sufferers from the outbreak has risen to 20 cases, with two deaths and 18 people requiring hospital treatment.

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This week, Onkar Singh Gill, a grocer from Middlesex engaged in a seven-year-long legal battle, has been ordered by the Appeal Court in London to pay a large amount of compensation to a female customer who slipped on some fruit outside his shop.

According to the Daily Mail, in November 2005 the customer, 57-year-old Samira Hassan, was looking at fruit on tables outside the shop in Greenford, when she slipped on some grapes lying on the pavement, despite wearing ‘sensible shoes’.

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Last November, the High Court ruled that the Catholic Church can be held liable in abuse cases involving priests. Yesterday, the Appeal Court gave a majority ruling upholding that verdict.

The Guardian reports the case was brought by a 47-year-old woman from the Portsmouth diocese, known only as JGE, who alleged she was raped and sexually assaulted by a priest, Father Wilfred Baldwin, now deceased.

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Five people are reportedly taking legal action over Edinburgh’s recent Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak which left two people dead.

The BBC reported on Friday that health officials believe the outbreak has peaked at 42 confirmed and 47 suspected cases. (more…)