Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | LORD BROWNE-WILKINSON,LORD SLYNN OF HADLEY,LORD NOLAN,LORD HOFFMANN,LORD CLYDE |
| Judgment Date | 13 November 1997 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1997] UKHL J1113-2 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 13 November 1997 |
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...P & Ors [2017] 8 CLJ 605. The Bolam test applies subject to the qualifications outlined in Bolitho v City & Hackney Health Authority [1997] 3 WLR 1151, which states that the body of medical opinion needs to withstand logical analysis. Please note that in relation to the duty of a medical pr......
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...trial. Mr Jones argued that the obstetrician was negligent on the basis of the test in Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1998] AC 232, refined in Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582. Bolam sets out that a doctor is not negligent if they have acted in acc......
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...duty in relation to her care, causation was not made out. The court found that, applying Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1997] 4 All ER 771, the defendant had adopted a practice considered to be reasonable by a body of appropriate expert opinion in not intubating before 00.40, ......
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47 books & journal articles
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MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE AND PATIENT AUTONOMY
...principle such as the fact that what has been done is in accord with a practice approved of by a respectable body of medical opinion. 20[1998] AC 232. 21Bolitho v City of Hackney Area Health Authority[1998] AC 232 at 243. For an illustration of this, see Marriott v West Midlands RHA[1999] L......
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Table of Cases
...ER 934, [1999] CPLR 675, CA 177 Bole v Horton (1672) Vaugh 360, 124 ER 1113 184 Bolitho (Deceased) v City and Hackney Health Authority [1998] AC 232, [1997] 3 WLR 1151, [1997] 4 All ER 771, HL 167 British Aviator, The [1965] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 271, 109 SJ 215, CA 195 Brock v Wollams [1949] 2 KB ......
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Analysing Judgments: Reasoning, Argument and Legal Logic
...62 SASR 443. 27 Maynard v West Midlands Regional Health Authority [1984] 1 WLR 634 at 639; Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1998] AC 232 at 238–9 and 241–2. 168 How Judges Decide Cases: Reading, Writing and Analysing Judgments Notwithstanding that the expert has all relevant pro......
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2011 index
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