Stroke prevention

Watson v Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2022] EWHC 148 (QB) Pickering v Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2022] EWHC 1171 (QB) Both of these cases were stroke cases involving issues of causation. Both were decided by Mr Justice Andrew Ritchie. General As those with experience of stroke…

Running Obvious Risks

Mrs James v The White Lion Hotel [2021] EWCA Civ 31 In Issue 4 the first instance decision was covered. In this article, the appeal is considered. The facts The Deceased fell out of the sash window of a second-floor hotel room in the middle of the night and died.…

Relationship Between Criminal and Civil Liability under the Occupiers’ Liability Act and Causation

Mrs James v The White Lion Hotel [2020] 1 WLUK 39  This article originally appeared in Issue 4 (March 2020). The facts  The Deceased fell out of the sash window of a second-floor hotel room in the middle of the night and died. The sill of the window was much…