Negligence: Double standards

Compass Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | October 2011 #99
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 …

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Expert Witnesses: Clamping down

9 Gough Square (Chambers of Andrew Ritchie QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | June 2011 #96
Giles Eyre looks at keeping expert witnesses up to the mark ‘In Jones v Kaney, the Supreme Court, by a majority of 5:2, overturned 400 years of established law in removing the immunity of expert witnesses.’ For as long as any of us can remember, if in the course of personal injury or clinical negligence …

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