Posted inInquests Issue 10

When does the Article 2 Investigative Duty Arise?

R (Morahan) v West London Assistant Coroner [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin) Facts Tanya Morahan (“Tanya”) had a history of paranoid schizophrenia and harmful cocaine use. From mid-May 2018 she was an inpatient at a rehabilitation unit operated by the Trust. She was initially detained under s.3 of the Mental Health Act…
January 24, 2022Posted inInquests, Issue 10Tags:
Posted inClinical negligence Issue 8

Spinal Surgery

Henry v Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 3306 (QB) This claim concerned posterior instrumental fusion surgery which took place on 22 July 2010. The Claimant alleged that there was failure to recognise misplacement of the L5 pedicle screw, either intra-operatively, in the immediate post-operative period or longer…
April 15, 2021Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 8Tags:
Posted inPublic Special Issue

Abortion and a Woman’s Home

R (on the application of Christian Concern) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2020] EWCA 1546 (Admin)  The High Court refused the Appellant permission to bring a judicial review against the decision of the Secretary of State to approve ‘the home of a woman’ as being a…
July 1, 2020Posted inPublic, Special IssueTags:
Posted inIssue 5 Quantum

PSLA in St Helena

Attorney General of St Helena v AB and others (St Helena) [2020] UKPC 1  This article originally appeared in Issue 5 (May 2020). This case arose out of two actions for damages for personal injury brought against a doctor employed on the island of St Helena (in the South Atlantic…
May 1, 2020Posted inIssue 5, Quantum