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Negligence: Double standards
Geoff Clarke QC discusses the differing treatments of judgement by professionals at work and when they are driving home ‘Cases where claimants succeed in questions involving clinical judgement are restricted to those where the practice followed is indefensible. If a practice can be shown to be in operation, even if the balance of opinion is …
Cases Referenced
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- Allan v Patterson [1979] ScotHC HCJ 1
- Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
- Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1997] UKHL 46
- Campbell v Borders Health Board [2011] ScotCS CSOH 73
- Cavanagh v Bristol and Weston HA QB [1992] 3 Med LR 49
- Dineley v Lothian Health Board [2007] ScotCS CSOH 154
- Fallows v Randle [1997] 8 Med LR 160
- Honisz v Lothian Health Board & ors [2006] ScotCS CSOH 24
- Hunter v Hanley [1955] CSIH 2
- Loveday v Renton [1990] 1 Med LR 117
- Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2010] CSOH 104; [2015] UKSC 11
- Penney & ors v East Kent Health Authority [1999] EWCA Civ 3005