A landmark legal case by families of children with physical and mental disabilities against a multinational pharmaceutical company is likely to be abandoned after legal aid was withdrawn.
The families say manufacturers of an anti-epilepsy drug taken by mothers in pregnancy should pay compensation because the children's conditions resulted from the medication.
But the government's Legal Services Commission, which is believed to have provided more than £3m to help the families prepare for the action, decided to end its financial support just three weeks before hearings were due to begin in the high court in London.'
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