16 October Case Updates Jennings v Otis Ltd [2023] EWHC 2039 (KB) Negligence, Experts’ joint inspection, Accident, Engineering, 07. Receiving Instructions, 06. Rules and Regulations, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements Witness attendance at experts’ meeting
16 October Case Updates OXR v Mid and South Essex Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWHC 2006 (KB) Negligence, Medical expert, ENT surgery, 14. Changing your opinion, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements Openness and reliance on the views of unidentified colleagues
8 August Case Updates Chapman v Mid & South Essex NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWHC 1290 (KB) Negligence, Literature, Pain Medicine, Disc prolapse, 11. Report Writing, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements, 15. Giving Oral Evidence “Going weak at the knees - allegedly negligent delayed diagnosis and treatment of a thoracic disc prolapse”
8 August Case Updates Shally v Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust [2023] EWHC 1304 (KB) Negligence, Clinical negligence, Neurosurgery, Costotransversectomy, 11. Report Writing “A negligent failure to perform a costotransversectomy?” The detail of this judgment will be of interest to neurosurgeons and spinal surgeons. However, particularly as the judgment quotes C v North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust [2014] Med. L.R. 189 which gives meaning to the adjectives ‘responsible’, ‘competent’ and ‘respectable’ in Bolitho, this is a useful judgment to have to hand when preparing a report in a case of alleged clinical negligence.
7 August Case Updates J & J Franks Ltd v Shotter [2023] EWHC 1080 (KB) Negligence, Procedural rules, Literature, Veterinary medicine, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing, 14. Changing your opinion, 15. Giving Oral Evidence “Four inexperienced experts on their learning curve”
22 November Case Updates Thorley v Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 2604 (QB) Negligence, Causation, Guidelines, Anticoagulation, Angiography, Material contribution, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing Relevance: General Cardiology Haematology
26 August Case Updates Doyle v Nagyhabib [2021] EWHC 1733 (QB) Negligence, Field of expertise, Treating doctor, 11. Report Writing Relevance: General Negligence Topics: Treating doctor Field of expertise
26 August Case Updates Dulson v Popovych [2021] EWHC 1515 (QB) Negligence, Guidelines, Breach of Duty, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Negligence Topics: Breach of duty Guidelines
23 August Case Updates Negus v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWHC 643 (QB) Legal test, Negligence, Operative Surgery, 11. Report Writing Relevance: General Negligence Operative surgery Topics: Legal tests Cardiothoracic surgery
15 June Case Updates De Sena v Notaro [2020] EWHC 1031 (Ch) Negligence, Breach of Duty, Nature of Expertise, 07. Receiving Instructions, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing The case: a claim brought by the claimants against the defendants in relation to a corporate demerger which took place in relation to a family company.