Woman loses baby after acne drug wrongly prescribed – BBC News
“A hospital has paid an undisclosed amount after a pregnant woman was given acne drugs that caused her unborn baby severe abnormalities.”
BBC News, 11th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: negligence
Pregnant mother died on operating table after trainees removed ovary by mistake – Daily Telegraph
“A heavily pregnant mother died on the operating table after two unsupervised trainee surgeons removed one of her ovaries instead of her appendix by mistake.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Police launch inquiry into hundreds of Stafford hospital deaths – The Guardian
“Hundreds of deaths at Stafford hospital are being examined by police after a review identified 200 to 300 cases where neglect might have been a contributory factor. Following the publication of the Francis report into serious care failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust, police, medical regulators and prosecutors launched a multi-agency review to establish whether any criminal offences were committed.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man sues over forensics live bullet conviction mix-up – BBC News
“A man wrongfully convicted of possessing ammunition after forensics staff mixed
up his £3 keyring and a live bullet is suing the government.”
BBC News, 7th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Woman sues lawyer whose failure to change a relative’s will ‘cost her £1m’ – Daily Telegraph
“Woman sues lawyer whose failure to change a relative’s will ‘cost her £1m.’ ”
Daily Telegraph, 6th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Leicester Royal Infirmary sorry over 100-year-old’s death – BBC News
“A ‘catastrophic error’ led to a 100-year-old great-grandmother dying from dehydration, a hospital has admitted.”
BBC News, 5th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘New law needed’ after collapse of care home neglect case – BBC News
“The collapse of Britain’s biggest investigation into elderly care home neglect has prompted calls for a reform of the law.”
BBC News, 4th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
He who hesitates is lost – New Law Journal
“Jonathan Aspinall reports from the Court of Appeal on hesitation, liability and costs.”
New Law Journal, 30th May 2013
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
Abdel Hakim Belhaj torture case may be heard in secret court – The Guardian
“One of the first cases to be heard by the government’s new generation of secret courts may be a claim brought by a Libyan dissident who was kidnapped along with his pregnant wife and flown to one of Muammar Gaddafi’s prisons.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Joyce v O’Brien and another – WLR Daily
Joyce v O’Brien and another [2013] EWCA Civ 546; [2013] WLR (D) 182
“Where the character of a joint criminal enterprise was such that it was foreseeable that a party or parties might be subject to unusual or increased risks of harm as a consequence of the activities of the parties in pursuance of their criminal objectives, and the risk materialised, the harm could properly be said to have been caused by the criminal act of the party suffering it even if it resulted from the negligent or intentional act of another party to the criminal enterprise. Therefore, in such circumstances the principle of ex turpi causa non oritur actio would provide the negligent party with a defence to a claim for negligence by the injured party.”
WLR Daily, 17th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Widower to receive £150,000 payout linked to wife’s death in Oxfordshire – BBC News
“A widower left with brain damage from alcohol abuse linked to the shock of his wife’s sudden death is to receive a £150,000 payout from the NHS.”
BBC News, 15th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Supreme Court ruling on trustee mistakes “likely to create uncertainty”, says expert – OUT-LAW.com
“A Supreme Court ruling on the circumstances in which courts can set aside decisions made wrongly by trustees is ‘likely to create uncertainty’ due to the subjective nature of the test, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Inquiry into CofE cleric abuse claim set up – BBC News
“Archbishop of York John Sentamu is setting up an independent inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse made against a Church of England cleric.”
BBC News, 12th may 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Teachers accused: 4 recent cases – Education Law Blog
“The following 4 recent cases all share the broad theme of claims or accusations against teachers.”
Education Law Blog, 1st May 2013
Source: www.education11kbw.com
Paul Ridd inquest: NHS neglect ‘contributed to death’ – BBC News
“A man with severe learning difficulties died from natural causes contributed to by neglect at a Swansea hospital, a coroner has ruled.”
BBC News, 2nd May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Every picture tells a story – Hardwicke Chambers
“Jamie Clarke interviews expert clinical photographer and proprietor of Clinical Photography UK, Tim Zoltie on the use of photography in personal injury and clinical negligence claims.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 24th April 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
It wasn’t my fault! Contributory negligence through the actions of others – Hardwicke Chambers
“An unresolved issue that has received little attention is whether a solicitor’s conduct could be attributed to his client as contributory negligence by that client in a claim brought against a different professional. If a claimant sues professional A for losses to which professional B also contributed, the normal course of events is for professional A to make a contribution claim against professional B. Professional A does not usually seek to attribute professional B’s conduct to the claimant in order to raise the defence of contributory negligence against the claimant. But it is easy to imagine circumstances in which the latter course would be attractive to professional A if available, for example if professional B is a man of straw whose insurers repudiate liability.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 2nd April 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
Compensation culture: Fact or fantasy? – Speech by the Master of the Rolls
“In my Presidential address I want to examine ‘compensation culture’. This I imagine is something with which W. S. Holdsworth, notwithstanding his truly encyclopaedic knowledge of English law, would have been unfamiliar. We can let him off though. The term was apparently not coined until 1993; when it first appeared in The Times newspaper in an article by Bernard Levin entitled Addicted to welfare.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 15th March 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Taylor and another v A Novo (UK) Ltd – WLR Daily
Taylor and another v A Novo (UK) Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 194; [2013] WLR (D) 119
“A person who suffered psychiatric illness (post-traumatic stress disorder), after witnessing the sudden collapse and death of her mother who had been injured at work by the admitted negligence of the defendant employer some three weeks earlier, did not have a right of action as a secondary victim for damages against the defendant, since there was an insufficient relationship of proximity between the person suffering the psychiatric illness and the defendant.”
WLR Daily, 18th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Legal action over Furness General Hospital deaths – BBC News
“More than 30 families have taken legal action against a hospital in north-west
England for a catalogue of baby and maternal deaths and injuries.”
BBC News, 15th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
