Posted inAbuse/Child Abuse Issue 10

The Boundaries of Vicarious Liability for Historic Child Abuse Explored Once Again

Blackpool Football Club v DSN [2021] EWCA Civ 1352 The facts The Court of Appeal considered an appeal against a finding that a football club was liable for the sexual abuse inflicted on a 13-year-old youth player in 1987 by a volunteer scout (Mr Roper) during a tour of New…
January 24, 2022Posted inAbuse/Child Abuse, Issue 10Tags:
Posted inClinical negligence Issue 10

Limitation

Wilkins v University Hospital North Midlands NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 261 (QB). Aderounmu v Colvin [2021 EWHC 2293 (QB) The Facts – Wilkins Deputy High Court Judge Hermer QC determined as a preliminary issue whether the claim against the Defendant Hospital for negligently failing to treat a significant post-knee replacement…
January 19, 2022Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 10Tags:
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High Court Rejects ‘Failure to Remove’ Abuse Claim

DFX v Coventry City Council [2021] EWHC 1382 (QB) In a significant adverse judgment for child abuse claimants, Mrs Justice Lambert rejected a claim brought by a number of Claimants who alleged that the Defendant council’s social services negligently delayed in instigating care proceedings and that, had they been removed…
July 9, 2021Posted inAbuse/Child AbuseTags: , ,
Posted inClinical negligence Issue 9

The Importance of Contemporaneous Medical Records

HXC (by her litigation friend) JXS vs Hind, Craze [2020] 10 WLUK 603 The facts On 8 June 2016, the then 24-year-old Claimant suffered a catastrophic subarachnoid haemorrhage arising from the rupture of a 10-11mm left internal carotid artery aneurysm. As a result of the haemorrhage she had a dense…
July 5, 2021Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 9Tags: ,