Three lessons from ex-footballer’s successful clinical negligence claim

Three lessons from ex-footballer’s successful clinical negligence claim Samuel Talalay Ebanks-Blake v Calder [2025] EWHC 3327 (KB) Introduction As temperatures dropped and trees went up in the days before Christmas, judgment was handed down in the case of Ebanks-Blake v Calder. Mrs Justice Lambert’s decision in the Claimant’s favour, circulated…

The limits of discretion in case management decisions

The limits of discretion in case management decisions Leo Kirby Prescott-Brann v Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 3314 (KB) Background The underlying claim was an action in clinical negligence. The Claimant’s case was that a negligent delay in the diagnosis and treatment of his stroke had…

Quantum Trial in Cerebral Palsy Case

Quantum Trial in Cerebral Palsy Case John Whitting KC and Thomas Hayes CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWHC 1770 (KB) Background The Claimant was a young girl who developed cerebral palsy with severe spastic quadriplegia, profound learning disabilities, visual impairment and epilepsy following severe chronic partial…

Third Party Costs Orders and Experts

Robinson v Mercier, Liverpool County Court [2021] 9 WLUK 400 The Court made a Third Party Costs Order (“TCPO”), in the sum of £50,543.85, pursuant to Part 46.2 and Part 46.8 CPR 1998 and Section 51 of the Senior Courts Act 1981, against Dr Mercier, General Dental Practitioner.  Dr Mercier…

Some Procedural Issues in Brief

Jarman v Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust [2020] EWHC 3238 (QB) Cherian v Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 3601 (QB) Taleb (A Child Proceeding by His Litigation Friend M) v Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust [2020] EWHC 1147 (QB) When can an expert in one…

A Lack of Expert Evidence: When to Strike Out?

Quaatey v Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 1296 (QB)  Magee v Willmott [2020] EWHC 1378 (QB)  This article originally appeared in Issue 6 (September 2020). Introduction  “I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.” – Willie Stargell, World Series Major League…