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This edition of the Newsletter considers a recent decision in the County Court which, for the first time, was concerned with the application of the Bolam test to conventional travel litigation. Practitioners who
operate exclusively in this field will rarely have recourse to the seminal decision of McNair J in Bolam v
Friern Hospital Management (1957) 1 WLR, but it has informed and shaped the common law insofar as it relates to duties owed by professionals (both inside and outside the medical profession) for over half a
century.
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