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Despite the illegality of her actions, a person who had engaged in mortgage fraud was not barred from bringing a claim for professional negligence against her solicitors for negligently failing to register the forms for the transfer of the property. [43] Ecila Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust [2020] UKSC 43: 30 ...
Case name Citation Date Legal subject Summary of decision Paul & Anor v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1 11 January 2024 Tort law, Nervous shock: A person cannot claim compensation for a recognised psychiatric illness caused by witnessing the death or injury of a close family member or other loved one due to medical negligence.
The NHS Redress Act 2006 (c 44) was passed and enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom on November 8, 2006. The policy provides a non-adversarial and quicker alternative to the traditional legal process for resolving clinical negligence claims within the NHS. The policy was enacted to compensate patients who have suffered harm due to ...
The NHS Litigation Authority was established in 1995 as a special health authority. [2] Its current duties are established under the National Health Service Act 2006. [3] It began using the name NHS Resolution in April 2017, reflecting a change of role to "the early settlement of cases, learning from what goes wrong and the prevention of errors" according to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for ...
In January 2018, NHS England announced that NHS hospitals in England would no longer provide office or advertising space for lawyers who encourage people to take the NHS to court. [8] In 2019/20 11,682 medical negligence claims and reported incidents were received by the NHS – an increase of 9.3% on 2018/19.
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association v Allgemeines Krankenhaus Viersen GmbH [2022] UKSC 29, [2022] 3 WLR 1111 is a judicial decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in relation to the proper law to govern contribution claims in cross-border torts.
The claimant was a woman of small stature and a diabetic under the care of a doctor during her pregnancy and labour. [2] The doctor did not inform her of the 9-10% risk of shoulder dystocia, where the baby's shoulders are unable to pass through the pelvis among diabetic women as she viewed the problem being very slight and believed a caesarean section was not in the claimant's interest.
Several families of the victims have revealed that they are suing the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, claiming clinical negligence. The claim of Carl Hendrickson (husband and father of Nittaya and Chester Hendrickson respectively) alone is expected to exceed £50,000. [6]