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Causation: Statistics in medicine
Ian Meikle considers the approach to causation in the clinical negligence case of Schembri v Marshall [2020] ‘Statistics may be the main evidential aid to what would have happened in hypothetical situations, but they are still only trends.’ The Court of Appeal addressed the appropriate approach to causation in a medical negligence case where a …
Cases Referenced
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- Baker v KTM Sportmotorcycle UK Ltd [2017] EWCA Civ 378
- Drake v Harbour [2008] EWCA Civ 25
- Gregg v Scott [2005] UKHL 2
- Ide v ATB Sales Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 424
- Schembri v Marshall [2020] EWCA Civ 358
- Wardlaw v Farrar [2003] EWCA Civ 1719