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Jennifer Newcomb has contributed to the latest AvMA’s newsletter published in June 2017, Jennifer wrote on: ‘A&E waiting times, receptionists and the provision of information to patients’ – Darnley v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 151 – Is there…
Introduction
I am Grahame Aldous QC. I specialise in catastrophic injury personal injury and clinical negligence claims. I act for both claimants and defendants and their insurers. I have extensive practical experience of advising and representing parties in claims involving discount…
Acting for a member of the judiciary, Grahame Aldous QC and Stuart McKechnie have succeeded in upholding a High Court judgment for a claimant in a clinical negligence claim on appeal in the Court of Appeal. Their argument that the evidence relied…
Andrew Ritchie QC, representing 17 of the families involved in the Tunisia beach massacre at the Inquest, said: “There is a line of thinking from the families that the FCO may have failed in their responsibility to the 60,000 British citizens who…
Tom Goodhead has achieved approval of a settlement of £150,000 in damages on behalf of the family of ‘O’ who died in 2011 at the age of 43. ‘O’ died following mismanagement of a subarachnoid haemorrhage leading to death. Liability was admitted…
Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, will today announce the creation of a new independent “Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch” to investigate failings of care in NHS Hospitals and, from April 2018, the introduction of a system for expert medical examiners to…
James Byrne looks at the recent judgment in XYZ v Warrington & Halton NHS Foundation Trust [2016] EWHC 331 (QB) (22 February 2016).
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Material Contribution in Clinical Negligence – Dr Sido John v Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The test for material contribution in Clinical Negligence cases has been restated, reaffirmed and massively simplified by John: Prove a breach of…
Tom Goodhead considers the judgment in Williams v The Bermuda Hospitals Board [2016] UKPC 4
Introduction
Much to the chagrin of Defendants, the doctrine of material contribution has become firmly established in the law of Clinical Negligence ever since Bailey v…
Kathleen Neville passed away on the 3rd March, 2014, following admission to the University Hospital of Wales on the 28th November, 2013 with a fracture of the neck of her femur.
Mrs Neville suffered from hyopthyroidism and required a thyroid medication…