Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1957 |
| Date | 1957 |
| Year | 1957 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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- Foo Fio Na v Dr Soo Fook Mun
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(1) The "Wembridge Claimants" and Others v (1) Martin Paul Winter* (First Defendant) (2) East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and Another (Second Defendant) Austin
...be high and/or such that it incorporates the Bolam test in a reference to the well-known test for clinical negligence in Bolam -v- Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582". 7 In addition to the issues of pure law, there are important issues of application of the law to the fac......
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Barrett v Enfield London Borough Council
...the child's educational needs and the authority would be vicariously liable if they were in breach, though the test in Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 W.L.R. 582 would apply to them. These were matters which needed to be 58In the Hampshire case, it was held that the ......
- Naxakis v Western General Hospital
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21 firm's commentaries
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Deliberate, fraudulent, negligent diagnosis of mental illness and an absence of consent on admission to a mental health ward: Stewart v Hames
...and territory 106 Above n 1, at [601]. 107 Above n 1, at [603]. Bowden DCJ citing Bolam v Friern Barnet Hospital Management Committee (1957) 1 BMLR 1; [1957] 2 All ER 118; [1957] 1 WLR 108 Above n 1, at [605]. 109 Above n 1, at [610]. 110 Above n 1, at [626]. 111 Above n 1, at [614]. 112 Ab......
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Robots To The Rescue: Regulation Of Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare In Malaysia
...24 Ziad Obermeyer and EJ Emanuel, "Predicting the Future - Big Data, Machine Learning, and Clinical Medicine" (29 September 2016). 25 [1957] 1 WLR 582. 26 As affirmed in Zulhasnimar Hasan Basri & Anor v Dr Kuppu Velumani P & Ors [2017] 8 CLJ 605. The Bolam test applies subject to the qualif......
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Invitation To Treat? Supreme Court Clarifies The Professional Practice Test
...referred to for shorthand as the "professional practice test", as set down by McNair J in Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582 ("Bolam"). The test is consistent with Hunter v Hanley 1955 SC 200 ("Hunter v Hanley"). A qualification to this test is found in Bolitho v ......
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Robots To The Rescue: Regulation Of Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare In Malaysia
...24 Ziad Obermeyer and EJ Emanuel, "Predicting the Future - Big Data, Machine Learning, and Clinical Medicine" (29 September 2016). 25 [1957] 1 WLR 582. 26 As affirmed in Zulhasnimar Hasan Basri & Anor v Dr Kuppu Velumani P & Ors [2017] 8 CLJ 605. The Bolam test applies subject to the qualif......
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74 books & journal articles
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Government liability in negligence.
...Act 2007 (UK) c 19, s 1(4)(b). (261) See Australian Retailers Association v Reserve Bank of Australia (2005) 148 FCR 446. (262) [1957] 2 All ER 118. (263) See, eg, Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) s (264) Ipp Report, above n 8, 151. (265) Harlow would deny the need for hindsight: see Carol Ha......
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MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE AND PATIENT AUTONOMY
...The UK, in a recent landmark decision, departed from its earlier jurisprudence applying Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee[1957] 1 WLR 582 to the duty to inform. However, Singapore continues to apply the Bolam test. This article argues that in light of the recent UK decision rejec......
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THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INTERESTS
...the law on the disclosure of medical risks in the UK was, at least in theory, governed by Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee[1957] 1 WLR 582 and the majority decision in Sidaway, under which the question of whether a doctor ought to have disclosed a risk is to be determined by wha......
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Table of Cases
...Ltd [2010] UKSC 35, [2011] 1 AC 380, [2010] 3 WLR 654, [2010] 3 All ER 975 9.3, 11.7, 24.1 Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582, [1957] 2 All ER 118, 101 SJ 357 4.4 Borell v Dann (1843) 2 Hare 440, 67 ER 181 9.5 Bowser v Maclean (1860) 3 de Gex, Fish & J 415, 45 ER ......
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