Case review: Clinical negligence update

No5 Barristers’ Chambers (Chambers of Adrian Keeling QC and Jonathan Jones QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | March 2018 #163
Dr Simon Fox QC provides a summary of all the important cases from 2017 ‘In ABC, the court considered the public interest, duty of confidentiality to the father, undermining of the doctor-patient relationship, pressure on patients to agree to disclosure, psychiatric harm to non-patients, burden on medical staff and incremental manner of development of the …

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Damages: Duty of care

Kings Chambers (Chambers of Nigel Poole QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | July/August 2017 #157
Anna Macey evaluates the balance between patient confidentiality and the prevention of harm ‘The mother’s claim was that her father’s medical practitioners had a duty of care to her, and her child, and ought to have informed her at any earlier opportunity of the likelihood of her father’s diagnosis.’ In the sad case of ABC …

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Liability: A catalogue of errors

Devereux Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | September 2016 #148
In part two of his article, Robert Weir QC continues his compilation of the most significant cases involving liability decisions from the last year ‘The judge properly recognised that the burden of proof lay with the claimant and did not draw inference of negligence from the fact that the extrusion had been retained.’   Part …

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