{"id":876,"date":"2009-04-15T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T09:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2009-04-15T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T09:23:06","slug":"boy-sues-father-81m-compensation-%e2%80%93-largest-ever-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Boy sues father &#8211; \u00a38.1m compensation \u2013 largest ever payout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-879\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mead_open_farm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"mead_open_farm\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>mead_open_farm<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The High Court has awarded a record compensation payment of \u00a38.1m to nine-year-old Callum Cross who was accidentally run over by his father, Patrick when he failed to see Callum as he reversed in a car park on a family day out at Mead Open Farm, near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, in March 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Callum will need life-long care after suffering catastrophic spinal and brain injuries.<\/p>\n<p>BBC news item <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/beds\/bucks\/herts\/7987930.stm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mead_open_farm The High Court has awarded a record compensation payment of \u00a38.1m to nine-year-old Callum Cross who was accidentally run over by his father, Patrick when he failed to see Callum as he reversed in a car park on a family day out at Mead Open Farm, near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, in March 2002. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}