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In Chantelle Pringle v Nestor Prime Care Services Ltd [2014] EWHC 1308 (QB), the claimant, P, aged two, became unwell with a high temperature, vomiting and some other symptoms. Her mother telephoned h...

If someone close to you has died in hospital and it is not clear why, their death is likely to be reported to the Coroner who, in turn, may decide to hold an Inquest.  You may then find yourself in r...

Anaesthetists specialise in anaesthetics, the branch of medicine that essentially involves putting you to sleep to enable you to undergo some form of intervention, whether that be a relatively minor i...

You have been seriously injured while being treated in hospital.  However, you are unhappy at the treatment that you received, which you believe caused your injuries.  Perhaps an operation went wron...

Relief from sanctions can be applied for under CPR Rule 3.9. The rule before the Jackson reforms came into force on 1 April 2013 set out the circumstances that the court must take into consideration o...

Two cases in the last year have again explored the concept of res ipsa loquitur, the Latin maxim literally meaning “the thing speaks for itself”, and its applicability in medical negligence cases....

A recent case relating to a case management decision on legal costs demonstrates the more stringent attitude of the Courts to procedural time limits in civil litigation cases following the Jackson ref...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency, hopefully life-saving, procedure, performed on someone who has suffered a cardiac arrest i.e. who has no spontaneous breathing (or is only gasping)...