Cauda Equina Syndrome

Jarman v Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 323 In Hewes v West Hertfordshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust & Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 1523 (see Issue 8), the Court of Appeal considered, for the first time, a case of alleged delay in the treatment of Cauda Equina…

Causation and the Chester Principle

Paul Pomphrey v Secretary of State for Health (2) North Bristol NHS Trust (3) [2019] 4 WLUK 483  This article originally appeared in Issue 1 (May 2019). This case concerned an alleged failure to diagnose compression of nerve roots leading to cauda equina and alleged delay in operating urgently. It…