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| Challenge to vCJD pay-outs fails | |
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| The families of victims of the brain disease vCJD have lost a High Court challenge over what they claimed was a "flawed" compensation scheme. | The families of victims of the brain disease vCJD have lost a High Court challenge over what they claimed was a "flawed" compensation scheme. |
| Annie McVey, from Devon, led the action after her teenage daughter Claire died from the human form of BSE - variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - in 2000. | Annie McVey, from Devon, led the action after her teenage daughter Claire died from the human form of BSE - variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - in 2000. |
| She claimed the government compensation scheme was highly complicated and a decision not to change it was unlawful. | She claimed the government compensation scheme was highly complicated and a decision not to change it was unlawful. |
| The case was dismissed after judgement was reserved over the January hearing. | |
| Mr Justice Silber said: "Although I am totally sympathetic to their present predicaments my duty is to apply legal principles." | |
| Those principles, he said, "have driven me to the conclusion that this claim must be dismissed". | |
| However, he added that the more he had read documents in the case "the more I have appreciated how tragic the consequences have been for the claimants' families of having a member with vCJD". |