Case report: Duce v Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust [2018] EWCA Civ 1307

12 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | September 2018 #168
Limits of the duty of informed consent; breach of duty; causation ‘The confirmation of the need to satisfy the but for test is consistent with a long line of recent authority.’ In Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] it was held that the doctor must take reasonable care to ensure that a patient is aware …

Continue reading "Case report: Duce v Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust [2018] EWCA Civ 1307"

This post is only available to members.

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 …

Continue reading "Case review: Clinical negligence update"

This post is only available to members.