Discovery Medical Records in UK Law

  • Ashworth Hospital Authority v MGN Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Junio 2002
    ... ... is at the basis of the application for discovery ... 2 This latter ... or consented to some publication of his medical records cannot possibly deprive the hospital of ... ...
  • Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 Enero 1968
    ... ... Hospital, and eventually to the Medical Rehabilitation Centre. She was not discharged ... to go by, whereas they have the hospital records from the very beginning, with full and complete ... The Master ordered discovery of documents but made no order as to mode of ... ...
  • Biguzzi v Rank Leisure Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Julio 1999
    ... ... out that the claimant had not given discovery on time; that no trial bundles had been prepared; ... was seeking to rely on psychiatric medical evidence. He took the view that the defendant was ... of trying to trace down these old medical records which related to the period of the claimant's ... ...
  • D. (Married Woman) (Respondent) v National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Appellants)
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Febrero 1977
    ... ... appeal upon a summons relating to the discovery of documents by the National Society for the ... , for the first time, that local authority records of child care investigations were immune from ... Take the clergyman, the banker or the medical man. None of these is entitled to refuse to ... ...
  • British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Julio 1980
    ... ... Take the clergyman, the banker or the medical man. None of these is entitled to refuse to ... is based upon the ancient bill of discovery in equity which has been given new life by the ... R.C.A. Corporation v. Reddingtons Rare Records [1974] 1 W.L.R. 1445 , Loose v. Williamson ... ...
  • Rondel v Worsley
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Noviembre 1967
    ... ... He added that in all the records of the law from the earliest time "there is no ... Phipos in 1838, 8 C. & P.475 was a medical case. The plaintiffs were husband and wife. The ... will have settled the pleadings; and on discovery; in his advice on evidence and on many other ... ...
  • Cartledge v E. Jopling & Sons Ltd
    • Court of Appeal
    • 23 Junio 1961
    ... ... And it may be, as the medical evidence suggests, that if the other men had been ... in particular of the medical and clinical records of the plaintiffs kept since 1950 has persuaded ... when the time which elapsed between his discovery of his condition and the filing of suit did not ... ...
  • M and Another v London Borough of Newham and Others; X and Others v Bedfordshire County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 29 Junio 1995
    ... ... the claims at an early stage, before discovery has taken place and before the facts are known ... service departments, the police service, medical practitioners, community health workers, the ... ...
  • Ventouris v Mountain
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 Febrero 1991
    ... ... the plaintiff sought further and better discovery of various classes of documents. The defendant ... Copies of entries in registers and public records, and of other original documents which were not, ... of the claim his solicitors copied his medical reports at the hospital. The employers asked to ... ...
  • Rondel v Worsley
    • Court of Appeal
    • 20 Octubre 1966
    ... ... A medical man was liable for negligence. So was a ... If an order for discovery has been made, he must insist upon his client ... ...
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