John Whitting KC, Author at The QMLR Archive

Swift V Carpenter – Questions and Observations

Swift v Carpenter [2020] EWCA Civ 1467 Days after the judgment in Swift v Carpenter was handed down, Lizanne Gumbel QC (“EAG QC”) and John Whitting QC (“JW QC”) of 1 Crown Office Row gave a webinar in which they talked through some questions arising out of the judgment and…

By John Whitting KC, Lizanne Gumbel KC, Henry Tufnell March 8, 2021Issue 7, Quantumaccommodation

Clinical negligence Issue 4

Damned Lies: Risk, Statistical Association and Causation

Clements v Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust [2018] EWHC 2064 AB v East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 3542 (QB) This article originally appeared in Issue 4 (March 2020). We are all familiar with the challenge of proving that a given breach of duty was causally relevant to injury…

By John Whitting KC March 1, 2020Clinical negligence, Issue 4Causation, Statistics