Hospital costs incurred while travelling in the EU will only be refunded if the patient would have had the same treatment free of charge in his country of residence, European judges have ruled.
The case followed a complaint by a French national resident in Spain and insured with the Spanish social security system.
While on a trip to France, Mr Chollet underwent unscheduled hospital treatment and was charged a proportion of the costs, as per French healthcare legislation.
The Crown Prosecution Service is reported to be studying the possible implications of a decision by an Old Bailey judge that there was too much doubt over conflicting medical evidence in a case in which a mother twice stood trial accused of shaking her eight-month-old son to death.
Describing her as a "caring, dutiful wife and loving mother", Judge Timothy Pontius ordered jurors to acquit twenty-seven year old Fatima Miah of manslaughter.
Mr Justice Pontius said: "It is my firm view that, unusually, there is no evidence upon which this jury could find, to the extent they feel sure, that the expert opinion supporting the prosecution allegation of non-accidental death is to be preferred."
A doctor, who worked as a forensic medical examiner with Devon and Cornwall Police, has won the first-ever postal selection process to choose a Parliamentary candidate.
The Court of Appeal is to look again at the conviction of a man on charges of rape and indecent assault after an investigation revealed possible flaws in the medical evidence presented at Trial.
A campaign to ban the use of tyres more than 10 years old on public service and commercial vehicles has moved a step nearer to success, with the announcement by the Transport Secretary that there will be a consultation on the issue.
The campaign – named Tyred – has attracted considerable attention in the North of England since its launch by Frances Molloy, whose son Michael was one of three people killed in 2012 when the minibus they were travelling in on the way home from a music festival veered off the road and crashed.
