futurebeachbum
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Ah, the joys of Universal Health Care....
From the London Times (Double murderer wins legal battle over cosmetic surgery on birthmark - Times Online)
From the London Times (Double murderer wins legal battle over cosmetic surgery on birthmark - Times Online)
The Justice Secretary Jack Straw found himself at the sharp end of his own nephew's legal acumen today when the High Court ruled that he had acted unlawfully in preventing a prisoner from having cosmetic surgery to remove a birthmark.
The publicly-funded legal challenge by Dennis Harland Roberts, a 59-year-old double murderer, could lead to other inmates being considered for treatments they might otherwise have been denied because of an undisclosed policy operated by Mr Straw.
The policy restricts prisoners? appointments for cosmetic and certain other treatments regarded as non-urgent - even though the Government has said prisoners were entitled to the same NHS treatment as the rest of the population....
The publicly-funded legal challenge by Dennis Harland Roberts, a 59-year-old double murderer, could lead to other inmates being considered for treatments they might otherwise have been denied because of an undisclosed policy operated by Mr Straw.
The policy restricts prisoners? appointments for cosmetic and certain other treatments regarded as non-urgent - even though the Government has said prisoners were entitled to the same NHS treatment as the rest of the population....
