Sir Menzies Campbell Slams Legal Aid & UK ConDem Government In Sanofi-Aventis Epilim Drug Class Action Injustice
The government’s legal aid body was today accused of acting as “judge and jury” by withdrawing state funding from a test case by families of disabled children against a pharmaceutical company. Sir Menzies Campbell MP, the former Liberal Democrat leader, said the Legal Service Commission (LSC) had apparently “usurped” the high court’s opportunity to determine whether an anti-epilepsy drug taken by mothers in pregnancy was responsible for the children’s conditions. In a letter to the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, Campbell said the “troubling” decision to withdraw funding seemed “a considerable injustice”, and appealed for a ministerial review. The case involves the families of 100 children but Irwin Mitchell, their solicitors, say they also represent families of another 169 children who claim they suffered deformities as a result of their families taking an anti-epilepsy drug called Epilim, whose active ingredient is sodium valproate. The case against Sanofi-Aventis, the drug’s manufacturers, has been in preparation for six years and is thought to have already cost more than 3m in legal aid. Campbell wrote to Clarke because a family in his constituency in North East Fife was involved in the case, which is likely to be formally abandoned in court next week. “By this decision, the LSC seems to be making itself ‘judge and jury’ in this claim, without allowing manufacturers to be called publicly to account,” he said.
James Meikle, The Guardian
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