What a strange time we find ourselves in. As we are inundated with headlines and statistics daily, I can fully
see how this may be a difficult time to find focus.
But litigation rumbles on in the shadows of the coronavirus outbreak. As we all get to grips quickly with
remote working practices and mastering court hearings by video app, 1 Chancery Lane is here to help in any
way that it can. We are business as usual. Indeed, it has been a busy time for 1 Chancery Lane’s medical law
practitioners.
In this briefing we give you a round-up of some of the recent cases that 1 Chancery Lane’s barristers have
been involved in (Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14 in which Edward Faulks QC appeared
for the Appellant Hospital, Paul v Royal Wolverhampon NHS Hospital [2019] EWHC 2893 in which Laura
Johnson appeared for the Claimants and R (Lewis) v Senior Coroner [2020] EWHC 471 in which Julian Waters
appeared for the Claimant). Ella Davis also looks at the decision in ABC v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust
[2020] EWHC 45.
Read the Medical Law Briefing in full here
On 10 April 2025, the Court of Appeal handed down Judgment in Re M (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 440, providing long awaited guidance for deciding whether and when to grant intermediary assistance to vulnerable parties in family proceedings. An intermediary is someone whose function…
This week the government announced a further consultation on proposed amendments to the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018; Anirudh Mandagere considers the proposals in detail and provides a link for the use of those who wish to respond to them. Alternatively, you…
The High Court handed down its judgment in Butler v Ward [2025] EWHC 877 (KB) yesterday, striking out £2.5million of the Claimant’s Schedule of Loss. Francesca O’Neill represented the Defendant surgeon (instructed by DWF LLP). The Judgment also raises interesting questions about when summary judgment applications…
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