Blog
Administrative Court Overturns NMC Strike-Off: Key Lessons for Regulators and Prosecutors
Jessica Etherington
15 September 2015
Clinical Negligence - fix the costs and you load the die
You may have seen the recent press coverage relating to the government’s plan to consider introducing fixed recoverable costs for personal injury claims involving clinical negligence worth up to £250,000. There is an underlying premise that this will save the NHS money at the expense of ‘greedy’ lawyers. I find it frustrating that the approach and behaviour of NHS Defendants (which drive up Claimant costs) has so far been overlooked. Additionally, I question the impact that fixed costs would have on injured Claimants’ access to justice.
17 July 2015
Birth injury series - caesarean section
Families affected by a birth injury are often reluctant to pursue a claim against the NHS or private hospital involved with their child’s birth. They may be distraught and finding it difficult to come to terms with the devastating news that their child has a catastrophic brain injury.
The focus of this blog is caesaren section and is the sixth and final blog in our birth injury series.
This blog first appeared in At Home Magazine.
15 July 2015
Injured abroad whilst on holiday? A modern take on the story of David & Goliath
In an earlier blog, Children unlawfully killed in Corfu hotel - should Thomas Cook be compensated?, I talked about how helpful the Package Travel Regulations are, but unfortunately they don’t always apply.
A client of mine was involved in a very serious road accident in Egypt. She was travelling in a desert safari tour (which had been organised by her hotel) when the vehicle inexplicably left the road. Her husband was one of two people to die in the accident, and she herself received serious injuries.
10 July 2015
Birth injury series - Cerebral palsy and brain damage
Families affected by a birth injury are often reluctant to pursue a claim against the NHS or private hospital involved with their child’s birth. They may be distraught and finding it difficult to come to terms with the devastating news that their child has a catastrophic brain injury.
The focus of this blog is cerebral palsy and brain damage and is the fifth in our series of six birth injury blogs.
This blog first appeared in At Home Magazine.
3 July 2015
Birth injury series - assisted or instrumental delivery
Some birth injuries can be anticipated and with prompt and appropriate action serious injuries can sometimes be avoided. If a birth injury is sustained through lack of appropriate care it may be possible to make a clinical negligence claim for compensation.
This blog focuses on assisted births and births involving intstrumental delivery, and it is the fourth in our series of six birth injury blogs.
This article first appeared in At Home Magazine.