‘In a judgment handed down on 17 April 2026, Edmund Burge KC (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court) dismissed a claim arising from a catastrophic act of self-harm by a young man with a documented history of suicidal ideation and attempts. The judgment is a careful and, in places, painful illustration of how the law approaches psychiatric risk assessment, the role of the Home Treatment Team (“HTT”) and the evidential burden on a claimant who must establish, on the balance of probabilities, that earlier or different action would have averted the index event.’
Quarterly Medical Law Review, 19th May 2026
Source: 1corqmlr.com
