In a significant new decision on clinical negligence liability, although finding a breach of duty, the Court of Appeal held that a mother could not recover the costs associated with her child’s disability, where the advice which she had sought…
The Court of Appeal unanimously allowed the appeal of by Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba against the decision of the Divisional Court to erase her. Following the decision of the High Court in January 2018 to substitute the original Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal (MPT)…
In a High Court judgment handed down last month the severity of the possible ramifications for bringing dishonest or exaggerated clinical negligence claims were made startlingly apparent. In Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust v Sandip Signh Atwal,[1] the NHS Trust was…
In November 2016, Mr David Sellu had his conviction for gross negligence manslaughter quashed by the Court of Appeal. He was originally sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment in late 2013, of which he served 15 months before…
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