Medical Malpractice in UK Law

  • Phelps v London Borough of Hillingdon
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Julio 2000
    ... ... is under a duty in making an assessment to seek educational, medical and psychological advice. The psychological advice is to be sought from an ... as a basis for the mounting of generalised "educational malpractice" claims. LORD LLOYD OF BERWICK My Lords, ... 119 ... ...
  • Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Junio 1979
    ... ... accident—granted a high and costly level of continuing care and medical treatment ... 11 Amidst these confusions and perplexities it falls to ... ...
  • Whitehouse v Jordan
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 Diciembre 1979
    ... ... has been the most dangerous event in the life of an individual and medical science has not yet succeeded in eliminating that danger". He parodies the ... Take heed of what has happened in the United States. "Medical malpractice" cases there are very worrying, especially as they are tried by juries who ... ...
  • Sidaway (A.P.) v Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudesley Hospital Health Authority and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Febrero 1985
    ... ... listened with great care to a substantial and complex volume of medical evidence and delivered a meticulous and detailed judgment, and after two ... The prolification of medical malpractice suits in the U.S.A. has led some courts and some legislatures to curtail ... ...
  • Crawford Adjusters (Cayman) Ltd v Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Ltd
    • Privy Council
    • 13 Junio 2013
    ... ... he has been the defendant in what he now claims was a malicious medical malpractice claim; and New Mexico used to adopt the English Rule but now ... ...
  • Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 Julio 1986
    ... ... During the first half of this century medical science began to put this right. Premature babies were helped to breathe ... ...
  • Bloomberg L.P. v ZXC
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 Febrero 2022
    ... ... an official investigation, for instance, such as a finding of medical malpractice following an official investigation by the General Medical ... ...
  • Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 07 Julio 1978
    ... ... 7 But now, by reason of the advances' of medical science, she was snatched back from death under the operation and has been ... we are in danger of injuring the body politic: just as medical malpractice cases have done in the United States of America. As large sums are ... ...
  • Trust Risk Group SpA v AmTrust Europe Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 Abril 2015
    ... ... the breakdown of a business relationship about the placement of medical malpractice insurance in the Italian market. Trust Risk Group SpA ("TRG"), ... ...
  • Sharu Naraji v (1) Dr. Donald Shelbourne MD (2) Dr K Donald Shelbourne MD LLC and Others
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 15 Diciembre 2011
    ... ... Miller QC, Mr Christopher Johnston QC (instructed by MDDUS (The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland)) for the 4 th Defendant ... negligence cases (referred to in the United States as medical malpractice) are governed by state law, as are most other tort cases in the United ... ...
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