The emphasis has been on the quality of the work, but because it’s not taxpayers’ money and because it’s a fund born out of a private initiative, we felt that we could take more risky decisions.” She added:”It means emerging artists have an opportunity to join the Tate collection.”Mrs Gertler hopes to repeat the initiative next year and is appealing for more donors.More than 120 galleries featuring the work of more than 1,000 artists, including Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, are taking part in the show, for which The Independent is the media partner.The fair is housed in a massive tent in Regent’s Park designed by the architect David Adkaye. The Tate galleries are to receive four new works by emerging artists including Olafur Eliasson, the man behind the dramatic new Turbine Hall installation, thanks to a £100,000 art fund established by a wealthy art benefactor.
Candida Gertler, the wife of Zak Gertler, one of Germany’s wealthiest property owners, gave £5,000 and persuaded 19 others to do the same to establish the acquisitions fund. When a High Court judge threw out the family’s claim, they went to the Court of Appeal The three test cases were heard in June.. He said this meant that to award large sums to the parents of a normal and healthy child would take much-needed funds away from the NHS.In the Court of Appeal ruling Lord Woolf said one of the asylum cases, estimated to have already cost £250,000 in legal fees, never stood any chance of succeeding.A Lithuanian family had sued a local authority for damages over what they alleged was inadequate housing while they sought asylum in the UK.

Instead, in a judgment where four out of seven law lords upheld an appeal from the NHS Trust involved, they awarded her just £15,000 for “being the victim of a legal wrong”.Karina Rees, from Darlington, Co Durham, who was born with the genetic disorder retinitis pigmentosa, is blind in her left eye and has only one-sixth of normal vision in her right. She asked for the sterilisation because she feared she would not be able to raise a child, but one of her fallopian tubes was not fully tied during the operation in 1995.The hospital has admitted negligence but said she was entitled only to limited levels of compensation for pain and suffering and losses caused by her pregnancy and labour.Lord Bingham said the policy was to regard a child, even if originally unwanted, as a blessing rather than a financial liability. The panel of judges, led by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf, used the appeals to set down guidelines that will curb the rising cost of human rights compensation.In a separate case, seven law lords overturned a virtually blind single mother’s court victory that could have provided her with more than £1m compensation to help bring up a child born after a failed sterilisation operation. The rising tide of compensation was checked yesterday by two court rulings that rejected cases brought by three asylum-seekers and a disabled single mother.
In the first ruling the Court of Appeal threw out three test cases by asylum-seekers claiming compensation under the Human Rights Act.

It is for this reason that we continue to believe that there is a threat of an attack here in the UK.”She concluded: “The threats of chemical, biological and radiological and suicide attacks require new responses and the Government alone will not achieve all of it; industry and even the public must take greater responsibility for their own security.” She urged the public to help the Security Service and the police by reporting any suspicious activity.. But she said the public should not get the terrorism threat out of proportion and she did not have “sleepless nights and nails bitten to the quick”.Delivering the James Smart Lecture, entitled “Global Terrorism: are we meeting the challenge?” at the headquarters of the City of London Police, she continued: “Western security services have uncovered networks of individuals, sympathetic to the aims of al-Qa’ida, that blend into society, individuals who live normal, routine lives until called upon for specific tasks by another part of the network.”Some of these individuals are in the UK. Not all of them fit the stereotypical profile of a terrorist sometimes portrayed in the media. “That means intelligence related to a plan or intention to mount a terrorist attack,” she explained. She said one of her colleagues, having read a “gloomy” intelligence report, joked that holidays were “only safe in Antarctica”.

Reinforcing that warning yesterday she said: “I see no prospect of a significant reduction in the threat posed to the UK and its interests from Islamist terrorism over the next five years, and I fear for a considerable number of years thereafter.” She said the Security Service was assessing an average of 100 pieces of “threat intelligence” worldwide every week. IRA terrorists have long used fertiliser as a key component of explosives.In only her second public speech since her appointmenta year ago, Ms Manningham-Buller said her 2,000-strong organisation had uncovered evidence of a series of sophisticated networks of terrorists and their supporters operating in Britain and Europe.She warned in June that it was “only a matter of time” before al-Qa’ida terrorists mounted a nuclear, chemical, or biological attack on a Western city. Chemical manufacturers are also seen as potential targets because of the proliferation on the internet of information about how to make bombs and poisons from fairly basic ingredients. Al-Qa’ida terrorists could be planning to use food poisoning and homemade chemical weapons against targets in Britain, the head of MI5 warned last night. Our systems for managing prisoners and our approach to race relations has changed beyond recognition.”. We can now only wait and see how wide reaching the inquiry will be.”Deborah Coles, co-director of Inquest, said the judgment was a “damning indictment of the Home Secretary’s failure to instigate a public inquiry”.But a Home Office spokes-man said the ruling was “disappointing”.He said: “We have always acknowledged responsibility for Zahid Mubarek’s tragic death.