Girl's Life In Tatters As LSC & ConDem Government Withdraw Legal Aid From Drug Case
A thirteen-year-old girl’s fight for justice has been left in tatters after her legal aid funding was withdrawn. Lucy Porritt, who suffers from the rare Sodium Valporate syndrome, is one of ten test cases involved in a lawsuit against drug company Sanofi Aventis. But now the Legal Services Commission (LSC), which decides which cases should be funded from the public purse, has pulled the plug just days before the High Court was due to hear it. Lucy, from Southwick, was born with a hole in the cleft of her palate, a deformed foot that had to be amputated and has had eight operations to put steel poles in her back to combat curvature of the spine. The family believe Lucy’s problems were caused by her mother Sally Porritt, 39, taking the drug Epilim to control her epilepsy during her pregnancy with Lucy. But just two weeks before the case was set to go before the High Court, the family has been told that the legal aid funding is being stopped. The family’s lawyers Irwin Mitchell, who are representing 101 families in the case, say that problems with Epilim had been identified as early as 1980. David Body, head of medical law at Irwin Mitchell, urged the LSC to rethink its decision.
Neil Vowles, Brighton Argus
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