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

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16/11/2021

In yesterday’s webinar, Paul Stagg and Lisa Dobie explained 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 considered 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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