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Clinical Negligence: Delay of reckoning
The material contribution test for causation in clinical negligence has been maintained and clarified following Williams and John. Suzanne Farg reports ‘The defendant appealed to the Privy Council on the basis that the Court of Appeal had been “led into error by a misinterpretation of ‘material contribution’ as sufficient for the purposes of causation.”’The recent …
Cases Referenced
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- Bailey v Ministry of Defence [2008] EWCA Civ 883
- Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw [1956] UKHL 1
- Hotson v East Berkshire Area Health Authority [1988] UKHL 1
- John v Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2016] EWHC 407 (QB)
- McGhee v National Coal Board [1972] UKHL 7
- Williams v The Bermuda Hospitals Board [2016] UKPC 4
- Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority [1987] UKHL 11