Medical Records in UK Law

  • Adams v Cape Industries Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 July 1989
    ... ... and, as to others, adjourned the application for further medical reports. The claims of the remainder of the plaintiffs were left to ... of relief entitled to the plaintiffs…this motion is based on the records and files herein". The date for hearing in the Tyler Court was 12th ... ...
  • Ashworth Hospital Authority v MGN Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 27 June 2002
    ... ... Brady may have initiated or consented to some publication of his medical records cannot possibly deprive the hospital of the protection which they ... ...
  • R v Turner (Terence)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 17 October 1974
    ... ... " Then followed a long account of the Appellant's personality and medical history and his family background. Some of the information had come from edical records; most of it from the Appellant himself but a little from his family and ... ...
  • Biguzzi v Rank Leisure Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 July 1999
    ... ... to the fact that the claimant was seeking to rely on psychiatric medical evidence. He took the view that the defendant was not being realistic in ... pursued a hopeless task of trying to trace down these old medical records which related to the period of the claimant's youth ... 59 As the ... ...
  • Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 January 1968
    ... ... , afterwards to the Whittington Hospital, and eventually to the Medical Rehabilitation Centre. She was not discharged till July 1959. She ... has only her recollection to go by, whereas they have the hospital records from the very beginning, with full and complete notes at every stage. I do ... ...
  • Hatton v Sutherland; Barber v Somerset County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 01 April 2004
    ... ... , unbeknownst to himself, was facing is dependent on scientific and medical knowledge. The factory doctor at the factory where Mr Stokes worked had ... The school records of absence for medical reasons show that between 1992 and 1995 (inclusive) ... ...
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 06 May 2004
    ... ... this sort, especially for someone striving to cope with a serious medical condition, would almost inevitably be extremely painful. But it is right ... revealed here was not in the same category as clinical medical records. That may be so, in the sense that it was not the notes made by a doctor ... ...
  • R v Donald Pendleton
    • House of Lords
    • 13 December 2001
    ... ... individual who was finding it difficult to cope with life (his medical records confirm this). The record of the police interviews gives an ... ...
  • Adams v Bracknell Forest Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 17 June 2004
    ... ... His educational records at the school were destroyed when he turned 21. One of the teachers thinks ... ; or (b) from facts ascertainable by him with the help of medical or other appropriate expert advice which it is reasonable for him to seek; ... ...
  • R v Angela Cannings
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 January 2004
    ... ... 5 Without medical evidence about the appellant's mental state, a verdict of infanticide was ... by Professor Patton, following a close examination of the medical records. JM also has identical twin daughters. In March 1997, when four weeks old, ... ...
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