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Key takeaways from the Home Secretary’s Statement on Asylum Reforms: 30-months permission to stay for new claims and transitional arrangements for pending cases
Oliver Oldman
21 June 2022
North Bristol NHS Trust -v- White: Contempt of Court in a medical negligence claim
In my blog on 21 April 2022, I summarised the decision of the Court in the case of Natasha Colley, a contempt of Court committed by the Claimant’s mother and Litigation Friend. This blog focuses on a further judgment for contempt: North Bristol NHS Trust -v- White. The case concerns a claim for clinical negligence for Cauda Equina Syndrome where the Claimant exaggerated the extent of her injuries.
21 April 2022
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust -v- Natasha Colley: Contempt of Court
This blog summarises the position when a Defendant submits an application to commit a Claimant’s Litigation Friend for contempt of Court for false statements made in a document verified by a statement of truth.
7 April 2022
Cojanu -v- Essex Partnership University NHS Trust: Update on Fundamental Dishonesty
On 2 February 2022 Mr Justice Richie gave Judgment on Cojanu, a clinical negligence claim where the Defendant advanced a defence of fundamental dishonesty.
5 April 2022
Ockenden Report: inadequate investigations into deaths of mothers and babies and a culture of silence
Last week the Ockenden report was finally published. A team of Midwives and Doctors, headed by Midwife, Donna Ockenden reviewed the maternity care given to 1,148 families between 2000 – 2019. The report made for shocking reading.
27 October 2021
Breast Cancer: The Most Common Cancer in the UK
Breast cancer accounts for almost 15% of all new cancer cases and affects both men and women. There are an estimated 150 new cases every day. Sarah Harding’s death earlier this year was a tragic reminder that breast cancer also affects young and premenopausal women.
