1. This morning the Lord Chancellor announced that the discount rate would be revised from 2.5% to -0.75%. This clearly has major implications for the calculation of future losses and will lead to much higher awards and settlements than we have seen before. There are also major implications for the calculation of damages for accommodation […]
Webster v Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 62 This was a consent claim where breach of duty was admitted, there was a dispute about the advice that should have been given and where causation was denied. Unusually the Court of Appeal reversed the first instance finding on causation with the result that […]
Today is the official launch of the third edition of Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law. You can find extracts from the print edition and updates on specific chapters on our website here. […]
John de Bono QC AVMA Conference, 2016 Rule 1: The court will (almost) always be sceptical and unsympathetic. Rule 2: Alcock remains the law. It is arbitrary and unfair. Rule 3: It is almost impossible to win a secondary victim claim. Rule 4: Your best hope is to make your client a primary victim. Rule […]
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