Posted inClinical negligence Issue 10

Limitation

Wilkins v University Hospital North Midlands NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 261 (QB). Aderounmu v Colvin [2021 EWHC 2293 (QB) The Facts – Wilkins Deputy High Court Judge Hermer QC determined as a preliminary issue whether the claim against the Defendant Hospital for negligently failing to treat a significant post-knee replacement…
January 19, 2022Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 10Tags:
Posted inClinical negligence Issue 7

Private International Law and Clinical Negligence (Part 2)

Roberts v Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help [2020] EWCA Civ 926 The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 (“the 1978 Act”) has extra-territorial effect and applied its limitation period to a contribution claim brought by the MOD and Soldiers, Sailors,…
March 8, 2021Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 7Tags: , ,
Posted inClinical negligence Issue 6 Procedural

Private International Law and Clinical Negligence

Roberts v Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association [2020] EWHC 994  This article originally appeared in Issue 6 (September 2020). The High Court decided two preliminary issues of private international law in a claim alleging negligence of a midwife resulting in acute profound hypoxic brain injury at a hospital in…
September 1, 2020Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 6, ProceduralTags: , ,