Welcome to the March 2023 edition of the Clinical Negligence briefing. Here, Laura Begley and Ella Davis bring you commentary on some of the notable clinical negligence cases reported...

Judgment has been handed down in CDE v Buckinghamshire County Council Katie Ayres, instructed by Mark Whittaker DWF LLP, successfully resisted an application to extend time...

In their webinar yesterday Sarah Prager and Dominique Smith tackled case planning and strategy, including...

In 2019 NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) were asked to identify any changes, including changes to legislation, that would help it deliver the ambitions in the NHS Long Term Plan.

In yesterday's webinar, Laura Johnson and Susanna Bennett went back to basics on the law of capacity as it relates to personal injury claims with a focus on some of the knotty practical issues that commonly arise in practice...

The Montreal Convention provides the sole cause of action where a passenger is injured or killed in the course of carriage by air.

On 21 February 2022 Recorder Paige at Plymouth County Court handed down judgment in this matter, following a two-day Trial, and dismissed the Claim.

The phenomenon of bird strikes is one that has plagued the airline industry for many years. Indeed, an American study on animal peril from 2011shows that 99,441 collisions between a plane...

The 1st April 2022 marks another notable event in the return to ‘normality', this time for creditors, as restrictions on the issuing of Winding Up Petitions are lifted.

The 1st April 2022 marks another notable event in the return to ‘normality', this time for creditors, as restrictions on the issuing of Winding Up Petitions are lifted.

On 25 January 2022 the FCA published its proposals on companies that seek to manage their liabilities through the use of schemes of arrangement and restructure...

The Court of Appeal judgment has been handed down this morning in the important secondary victim case of Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Foundation Trust and the two linked cases of Polmear v Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust and Purchase v Ahmed.

The High Court has this morning handed down judgment in Traylor and Traylor v Kent and Medway NHS Social Care Partnership Trust ([2022] EWHC 260 (QB)).

In yesterday's webinar John Ross QC, David Thomson and Susanna Bennett considered the intersection of mental capacity and claims arising out of traumatic brain injuries.

Sports injuries present a challenge to personal injury practitioners. The difficulties of establishing liability were recently examined by Mr. Justice Lane in the High Court judgment...

Elite sport is a precarious occupation. An injury may abruptly end a promising career. Large sums of money are therefore at stake when a sports player brings a claim of medical negligence against their clinician.

That decision was Howe v Motor Insurers' Bureau ("Howe"), which was belatedly reported as [2020] Costs LR 297.

The case of Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police ought to be read by all personal injury practitioners.

Where a person is injured during the course of carriage by air, pursuant to Article 29 of the Convention (s)he may only bring a claim under the Convention.

In a judgment handed down today, the Court of Appeal has allowed the appeals of the claimants in the joined appeals in HXA v Surrey CC; YXA v Wolverhampton CC [2022] EWCA Civ 1196.