Posted inClinical negligence Data and Information Issue 15

Anonymity orders: putting the genie back in the bottle?

Anonymity orders: putting the genie back in the bottle? Leo Kirby PMC -v- A Local Health Board [2024] EWHC 2969 (KB) Nicklin J provides guidance on when and how to seek orders for anonymity and/or reporting restrictions. The default position must be open justice: it is for the applicant to…
December 3, 2024Posted inClinical negligence, Data and Information, Issue 15Tags: ,
Posted inData and Information Issue 12

Data Protection

Underwood v Bounty UK Ltd & Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust [2022] EWHC 888 (QB) Background Ms Underwood awoke on a post-natal ward, after a difficult labour lasting more than 100 hours and ending in an emergency caesarean, to a woman whom she assumed was part of the hospital’s maternity staff…
May 2, 2023Posted inData and Information, Issue 12
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