Medical Negligence or Clinical Negligence in UK Law

  • Gregg v Scott
    • House of Lords
    • 27 January 2005
    ... ... injustice in a common form type of medical negligence case. Some believe a remedy is ... of that case can apply to a case of clinical negligence such as this ... 73 ... ...
  • Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 11 March 2015
    ... ... Intervener (General Medical Council) ... Andrew Smith QC ... She attributes those injuries to negligence on the part of Dr Dina McLellan, a consultant ... or where there was some other cogent clinical reason for non-disclosure. The Lord Ordinary was ... ...
  • Sidaway (A.P.) v Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudesley Hospital Health Authority and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 21 February 1985
    ... ... appellant has not made out a case of negligence against her surgeon, the late Mr. Murray A ... to a substantial and complex volume of medical evidence and delivered a meticulous and detailed ... from our consideration matters of clinical judgment of the neuro-surgeon as to how to ... ...
  • Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority
    • House of Lords
    • 13 November 1997
    ... ... two questions relating to liability for medical negligence. The first, which I believe to be more ... risks and benefits is a matter of clinical judgment which a judge would not normally be able ... ...
  • Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
    • House of Lords
    • 15 July 1999
    ... ... an alternative plea of contributory negligence. On the assumption that the death had been caused ... 882 , where a prisoner suffering from clinical depression committed suicide in his cell, Tudor ... suicide is a foreseeable result of a medical provider's failure to take reasonable steps to ... ...
  • Whitehouse (A.P.) (Suing by his Mother and Next Friend Eileen Whitehouse) v Jordan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 19 February 1981
    ... ... brain was caused by the professional negligence of Mr. J. A. Jordan who was Senior Registrar at ... a trial of eleven days in which eminent medical experts were called on each side, and numerous ... were applied may not be exact in its clinical detail, I believe her, in so far as her ... ...
  • Chester v Afshar
    • House of Lords
    • 14 October 2004
    ... ... conventional approach to causation in negligence actions should be varied where the claim is based ... to a seriously adverse result, known in medical parlance as cauda equina syndrome. The existence ... Causation" (1999) 115 LQR 21 ; Grubb, "Clinical Negligence: Informed Consent and Causation" ... ...
  • Maynard v West Midlands Regional Health Authority
    • House of Lords
    • 05 May 1983
    ... ... The negligence alleged against each, or one or other, of them is that contrary to the strong medical indications which should have led them to ... up to that standard in any respect ('clinical judgment' or otherwise) he has been negligent." ... ...
  • Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority
    • House of Lords
    • 10 March 1988
    ... ... is due both to the remarkable advances of medical science and technology in this field in ... 3 The allegations of negligence against the authority related to two quite ... primary facts, as ascertained from the clinical notes about Martin's condition and treatment at ... ...
  • Re J (A Minor)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 July 1992
    ... ... In Re "J" (A Minor) (Medical Treatment) [1992] EWCA Civ J0710-1 ... and cure, not least because one of its clinical manifestations, which is part and parcel of the ... will be liable to the minor in negligence if he fails to advise with reasonable skill and ... ...
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