Posted inIssue 8 Personal injury

Personal Liability – MOD

Constance v (1) MOD (2) Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust [2020] EWHC 3029 (QB) The Facts Mr David Lock QC sitting as a deputy Judge of the High Court held the Ministry of Defence and an NHS Trust to be liable to a former soldier whose hearing loss had been…
April 15, 2021Posted inIssue 8, Personal injury
Posted inData and Information Issue 7

GDPR and Inaccurate Clinical Records

R (Mrs AB) v Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 2287 (Admin) HHJ Davis-White sitting as a judge of the High Court refused the Claimant’s renewed application for permission to bring a judicial review proceedings challenging the refusal to delete inaccurate information…
March 8, 2021Posted inData and Information, Issue 7
Posted inClinical negligence Issue 7

Surveillance Evidence and Fundamental Dishonesty

Wilcox v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 2555 (QB) Garraway v Holland & Barrett Limited [2020] 3 WLUK 582 (accessible on Lawtel and Westlaw only) Two recent decisions consider the use of surveillance evidence in the context of fundamental dishonesty. Wilcox v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation…
March 8, 2021Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 7Tags:
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 inClinical negligence Issue 5

Vicarious Liability – Associate Dentists

Ramdhean v Agedo and The Forum Dental Practice Limited 2020 WL 00620352  This article originally appeared in Issue 5 (May 2020). The Facts  The claim arose out of allegedly negligent care given to the Claimant at a dental surgery. A preliminary hearing was held at Leeds County Court to consider…
May 1, 2020Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 5Tags: , ,