Non-Delegable Duty: Different Dentist, Same Drill

Around this time last year, Dominic Ruck Keene examined the County Court decision in Ramdhean v Agedo and The Forum Dental Practice Limited 2020 WL 00620352. HHJ Belcher concluded that a dental practice owed a non-delegable duty of care with respect to treatment carried out by a dentist working there.…

Article 2 Inquests and Community-Based Psychiatric Patients

R (Lee) v HM Assistant Coroner for the City of Sunderland [2019] EWHC 3227 (Admin)  This article originally appeared in Issue 5 (May 2020). It is now eight years since the Supreme Court found that the death of a voluntary mental health patient whilst on leave could engage the state’s…