1CL Webinar: Material Contribution and Causation: Trump Card or Busted Flush?

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Published: 01/11/2021

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In this webinar, Paul Stagg and Lisa Dobie seek to explain the circumstances in which a claim may succeed on the basis of demonstrating a material contribution to an adverse outcome in the clinical negligence context.

They consider the concept’s relationship to the establishment of liability and assessment of quantum, in relation to both physical and psychiatric injuries, and the necessary input from experts into these questions.

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Paul Stagg KC

Call 1994 | Silk 2024

Lisa Dobie

Call 2006

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