Clinical Negligence: Reducing the patient’s life by four months

Zenith Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | July/August 2014 #127
Ruwena Khan assesses the outcome of Cutting v Islam ‘The evidence of the defendant’s colorectal surgery expert was preferred by Patterson J who found that any prolongation of life would have been unlikely to have been of significant order and would have been no more than four months’ A general practitioner who had not fully …

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Clinical Negligence: What does a clinician have to tell the patient?

7 Bedford Row | Personal Injury Law Journal | May 2014 #125
Julian Matthews looks at the case law and some recent illustrations ‘The touchstone for liability in clinical negligence claims remains the Bolam test, and Chester and Birch do not warrant a wholly different approach in cases concerning advice.’ The standard of care the law requires of a doctor has become well established using the terms …

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