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On 15 November 2021, the Civil Justice Council (CJC) produced an Interim Report entitled “Review of Pre-Action Protocols (PAP)” [1] for consultation on the subject of the PAPs, in which it canvass...

A few months ago, I wrote a blog about patient safety in the private healthcare sector in which I flagged some concerns about patient safety in that sector. This was based primarily on my experience o...

There have been two interesting recent judgments which have discussed the concept of material contribution causation in clinical negligence cases. The first is Leach v North East Ambulance Service...

We are all very familiar with blood tests, ranging from routine full blood counts and urea and electrolytes to far more esoteric and unusual tests, and we are also familiar with tests having normal or...

There are plenty of reasons why the private healthcare sector is a booming business because there are plenty of reasons why a patient will choose private healthcare over that provided by the NHS. Thes...

One of the issues that has cropped up for doctors and other healthcare professionals as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown in its various forms in 2020 has been the rise in the need for...

An interesting case in which judgment was relatively recently handed down is that of Thomas Bradfield-Kay v Marcus Cope [https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2020/1351.html] EWHC 1351 (QB) concerni...

Shortly before the lockdown caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, the Court of Appeal gave their judgement in an interesting and complex clinical negligence case on causation, Mario Schembri v Ian Marsh...