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Restitutio In Integrum: ‘What’s done cannot be undone’
Christopher Kennedy QC considers the principles behind the notion of ‘full compensation’ in cases involving serious personal injury and how they have been applied ‘What sounds perfectly straightforward in the judgment of an eminent jurist can appear more challenging when considering the messy facts of an individual case.’The phrase ‘restitutio in integrum’ means restoration to …
Cases Referenced
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- A (a child) v University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWHC 366 (QB)
- Brown v Merton (1981) unreported, 21 December, reproduced in Lewis v Shrewsbury at para 185
- Cassell v Riverside Health Authority [1992] PIQR Q168
- Heil v Rankin [2000] EWCA Civ 84; [2000] EWCA Civ 187
- Lewis v Royal Shrewsbury NHS Trust (2007) unreported, Birmingham, Alasitair Macduff, 29 January
- Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co (1880) 5 App Cas 25
- Pickett v British Rail Engineering [1978] UKHL 4
- Robshaw v United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 923 (QB)
- Sarwar v Ali [2007] EWHC 274 (QB); [2007] EWHC 1255 (QB)
- Whiten v St Georges NHS Trust [2011] EWHC 2066