Insights

Since moving away from home and theoretically becoming an adult, it has always amazed me how our parents had the time to: 1) look after us; 2) go to work and 3) have something vaguely representing a l...

They say that nothing can prepare you for the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to be a parent. But how would you feel if that opportunity was taken away from you because of the negligent...

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) last week (13 September 2017) published new guidelines to help prevent the transmission of Group B Streptococcal (GBS).   What i...

The body image debate is one which women have been having for generations. What exactly is the “perfect body”? In renaissance Italy women were celebrated for their rounded bodies, full hips and la...

An analysis of Darnley v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 151; Court of Appeal Most of us will have been to A&E in our lifetime. Equally, most of us will have spent a considerabl...

The recent case of Muller v Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, whilst not changing the law in relation to the appropriate standard of care, brings into question whether the traditional “Bo...

Napoleon once opined, ‘When people cease to complain, they cease to think’. But, stereotypically, the British are not known for their ability to complain. When we are in a restaurant, and the meal...

In the recent case of Smith v Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and another [2016] EWHC 2208 (QB) the court found that whilst a failure by the Fatal Accidents Act 1979 to award bereavement damag...