Posted inClinical negligence Issue 6 Procedural

Application for Permission to Amend a Statement of Case

Pearce v East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust [2020] EWHC 1504 (QB)  This article originally appeared in Issue 6 (September 2020). In a succinct judgment from Lambert J, the High Court has provided a useful summary of the court’s approach to applications for permission to amend a statement of case. …
September 1, 2020Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 6, ProceduralTags:
Posted inCosts Issue 6

Costs Update

Costs is not always the first thought on a clinical negligence practitioner’s mind, but the first 6 months of this year have been busy with relevant costs decisions. Here are the author’s top 10 useful costs decisions to keep in mind as you plan, practice, and seek to recover /…
September 1, 2020Posted inCosts, Issue 6Tags: ,
Posted inInquests Special Issue

Covid-19 and Causation

One key factor that is driving the Government’s response to COVID-19 is the number of deaths. Those are deaths ‘from’ COVID-19, the number of deaths ‘with’ COVID-19, and the number of those who have died with or from COVID-19 who are ‘likely’ to have died within a certain period of…
July 22, 2020Posted inInquests, Special IssueTags: ,
Posted inPublic Special Issue

Abortion and a Woman’s Home

R (on the application of Christian Concern) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2020] EWCA 1546 (Admin)  The High Court refused the Appellant permission to bring a judicial review against the decision of the Secretary of State to approve ‘the home of a woman’ as being a…
July 1, 2020Posted inPublic, Special IssueTags:
Posted inInquiries Special Issue

Being BAME is a Major Risk Factor for Dying of Covid-19 – What Can Be Done About It?

Introduction  This article originally appeared in a Covid-19 Special Issue (July 2020). The Public Health England (“PHE”) review into the disparities in risks and outcomes of COVID deaths was published on 3 June 2020. It was intended to address increasing concerns, notably voiced by the British Medical Association, about the…
July 1, 2020Posted inInquiries, Special IssueTags:
Posted inIssue 5 Regulatory

Professional Regulation

(1) General Medical Council (2) Professional Standards Authority for Health & Social Care v Asef Zafar [2020] EWHC 846  This article originally appeared in Issue 5 (May 2020). The Divisional Court substituted a sanction of erasure for a 12 month suspension in this appeal by the GMC and PSA arising…
May 1, 2020Posted inIssue 5, RegulatoryTags: