NICKNAMED Erin Brockovich, he’s the British lawyer who takes on the Goliaths of corporate Britain – and wins. Sitting in his unflashy Watford office, wearing blue jeans and an open neck ...

If the decision went the other way, the baby was exposed – deliberately abandoned outside. This usually happened to deformed babies, or when the father did not think that the family could ...

Then 28, she spent vast periods of her pregnancy ill in hospital and ended up comforting other new mums whose babies were born ... birth to Shelby Ann with a deformed ear. At first, the doctors ...