Clinical negligence

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Update | Clinical negligence: When medics aren't liable

Jock Mackenzie looks at three recent cases in which judges found medics not liable of negligence and highlights the difficulties faced by claimants in bringing such cases

Could consumer protection laws help defective implant claimants?

Women with no clinical need for the removal of faulty breast implants are left with no obvious remedy, unless they can be allowed to rely on the Consumer Credit Act, says Daniel Collins

Update | Clinical negligence: midwives, paramedics and other medical staff

Jock Mackenzie considers recent cases involving allegations of negligence by midwives, paramedics and obstetrics staff, and the extent to which the Court of Appeal will overturn 'a first instance decision on only matters of facts

Personal injury update: undervalued claims

Vijay Ganapathy considers the consequences of an undervalued 'claim and a local authority's 'non-delegable duty of care

Lords reject proposals to replace legal aid for children with CFAs

The government suffered another battering over the legal aid bill in the lords this afternoon as peers endorsed a series of amendments to bring all children cases back into scope.

Clinical negligence claims 'entirely suitable for ADR'

Clinical negligence disputes are "entirely suitable" for alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, Lord Justice Jackson has repeated in an attack against sceptics last week.

Clinical negligence update

Jock Mackenzie examines four cases considering the rules on the determination of causation

Legal aid bill battered by 'very impressive' lords

Six amendments passed as peers refuse to be 'bought off' by concessions