Breach of duty: Saying the wrong thing

9 Gough Square (Chambers of Andrew Ritchie QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | December 2018/January 2019 #171
Shahram Sharghy reports on a case that concerned whether a duty of care was owed by a non-medically-trained receptionist ‘As soon as the claimant had been “booked in”, he entered into a relationship with the defendant of patient and healthcare provider. The scope of the duty extends to taking reasonable care not to provide misleading …

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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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