Order Seeking Possession of a Hospital Bed During the Covid-19 Pandemic

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v MB (Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 882 (QB)  The Claimant, the NHS Trust, sought possession from the Defendant, a patient called MB, of a bedroom on a ward of the hospital. The ward was intended for those requiring acute neuropsychiatry care for up…

Failure to Recognise Claimant’s Stroke Not a Breach of his Human Rights

Watling v Chief Constable of Suffolk [2019] EWHC 2342 (QB)  This article originally appeared in Issue 4 (March 2020). The High Court rejected a claim that a failure to recognise the signs of a stroke in a detained person and transport him to hospital entailed breaches of his human rights. …