Clinical negligence claims involving children bring unique and complex challenges. In this Dekinar, Laura Elfield and Kerry Nicholson will provide practical guidance for practitioners on how to navigate issues that may arise in litigation, causation and quantum.
This will include conferences, litigation friends, establishing pre-index baseline in brain/psychiatric injury claims, care claims, future loss of earnings, uncertain prognoses, interim payments, and obtaining approval.
This Dekinar will provide valuable guidance on pitfalls to watch for in clinical negligence claims involving children, and how to navigate them.
Much of children law involves the exploration of the facts relating to the child’s care and welfare, often coloured by the complex relationship dynamics between the adult protagonists. Occasionally, however, the facts which need to be established can be more fundamental. In John v Jane…
By Laura Hibberd Re E (A Child) (Special Guardianship Order: Public Law Proceedings) [2026] EWCA Civ 1167 Special guardianship orders are often thought of as the “middle ground” of permanence: more secure than a care order, less final than adoption, and with the child’s legal…
By Tim Parker KC The President of the Family Division handed down judgment on 29th September 2026 the decision in the first appeal following the introduction of Child-Focused Courts pilot. In Re C (Child Arrangements Orders; Domestic Abuse; Child Focused Court) [2026] EWCA Civ 1216…
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