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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Serjeants’ Inn Chambers & Oxford Neurosurgery and Spine Practice – 7th Annual Oxford Medical Law Conference Wadham College 26 September 2016 Legal Update Duty of Care 1. Smith v University of Leicester NHS Trust [2016] EWHC 817 (QB) (15 April 2016): Neil Caven (“Neil”) a patient at the Defendant hospital (D) suffered from a long-standing […]
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On 15th April 2016 Peter Jackson J handed down judgment in Spencer v Anderson (Paternity Testing: Jurisdiction) [2016] EWHC 851 (Fam), an unusual case involving novel legal issues about whether the court can use the inherent jurisdiction to direct scientific testing of the DNA of someone who has died, for the purpose of providing evidence […]
1. Commentators have asked about the legal consequences of a health service body or other registered person under the Regulated Activities Regulations 2014 providing a notification of a patient safety incident under Regulation 20 (2) upon information provided by an individual doctor. Would that material be admissible against the individual doctor in (say) some later […]
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