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 inClinical negligence Issue 12

Out of Hours Emergency Mental Health Provision and Paper Records

Williams v Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board [2022] EWHC 455 (QB) In Williams v Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board [2022] EWHC 455 (QB) following her husband’s suicide after a relapse in his psychiatric condition, the Claimant brought proceedings on behalf of her deceased husband’s estate and herself as…
May 2, 2023Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 12
Posted inInquests Issue 12

Article 2 and a Child Under a Care Order

R (Boyce) v HM Senior Coroner for Teeside and Hartlepool [2022] EWHC 107 (Admin) Mrs Justice Belcher upheld the Coroner’s decision that Article 2 was not engaged by the death of a 15 year old girl (Grace Peers) who died while in the care of Middlesborough Borough Council, who had placed…
May 2, 2023Posted inInquests, Issue 12Tags:
Posted inClinical negligence Issue 12

Stroke prevention

Watson v Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2022] EWHC 148 (QB) Pickering v Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2022] EWHC 1171 (QB) Both of these cases were stroke cases involving issues of causation. Both were decided by Mr Justice Andrew Ritchie. General As those with experience of stroke…
May 2, 2023Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 12Tags:
Posted inIssue 12 Personal injury

Tax on an Award of Damages

Manuel Mathieu v Tony Martin Hinds, Aviva Plc [2022] EWHC 924 (QB) Background The Claimant was injured when he was aged 29. At the time of his injury he was  studying for a Masters’ degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. He was crossing a road in Lewisham at…
May 2, 2023Posted inIssue 12, Personal injuryTags: