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The new government’s promise of extra cash, staff and hospitals for the NHS is welcome. The details are, of course, yet to be finally ascertained and it remains to be seen exactly how much in the wa...

In a recent judgement delivered on 8 October 2019 in Mordel v Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWHC 2591 (QB), Mr Justice Jay had to consider some interesting consent issues regarding NHS a...

One of the more discussed issues that has arisen in the last few months in a number of clinical negligence cases is that of the scope of the duty of care. Although previously primarily considered in t...

In November 2018 I gave a talk at the Bond Solon Annual Expert Witness Conference during which I attempted to summarise the impact of the Supreme Court judgment in Montgomery some 3½ years on from th...

Jock Mackenzie & Amy Wedgwood outline an important decision relating to summary judgement in clinical negligence.  To read the full article, please click here: PI Focus - December 2018...

On Friday 9th November, Jock Mackenzie presented the medicolegal session at the Bond Solon Annual Conference in Westminster. Now in its 25th year, the conference is the largest annual gathering of...

Hewes v Dr Tanna & Ors [2018] EWHC 2715 (QB) Decision to award summary judgment in a clinical negligence case overturned The case of Hewes v Dr Tanna & Ors is one which has already caused...

I have previously written about the case of Darnley following both the High Court judgment (in a LexisNexis article in August 2015 [1]) and the Court of Appeal judgment (in a blog in April 2017 [2]),...