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Advocate’s advice: Clinical negligence update
Bill Braithwaite QC provides his insight on recent significant case law ‘In Montgomery, the Supreme Court highlighted the importance of patient autonomy and the patient’s entitlement to make decisions whether to incur risks of injury inherent in treatment.’ Updating in clinical negligence is not always easy, because the principles usually stay the same, and only …
Cases Referenced
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- Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
- Clements v Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust [2018] EWHC 2064 (QB)
- DS v North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust [2016] EWHC 1246 (QB)
- Duce v Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust [2018] EWCA Civ 1307
- H v Southend Hospital NHS Trust (Lawtel 11/4/2017 Extempore)
- Hassell v Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWHC 164 (QB)
- Kennedy v Frankel [2019] EWHC 106 (QB)
- Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11
- TW v Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWHC 3139 (QB)
- Webster v Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 62
- Welsh v Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust [2018] EWHC 1917 (QB)
- YAH v Medway NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWHC 2964 (QB)