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Advocate’s Advice: Clinical negligence review
Bill Braithwaite QC analyses the most important cases of the year ‘A report setting out a diagnosis without any recommendation for treatment or any further diagnostic procedure is far from what McNair J had in mind when he directed the jury in Bolam.’ Although I only do clinical negligence claims involving the brain or spine, I …
Cases Referenced
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- Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
- Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1997] UKHL 46
- FB v Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 334
- Harrison v University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 792
- Merrix v Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust [2016] EWHC B28 (QB); [2017] EWHC 346 (QB)
- Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2010] CSOH 104; [2015] UKSC 11
- Muller v King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWHC 128 (QB)
- Webster v Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 62