Clinical Negligence Update - Liability, Capacity & Costs
Introduction
This webinar will provide an update on the main areas and issues in clinical negligence over the last 12 months or so.
The webinar will consider some practical issues relating to cost recoverability and QOCS together with an important review of mental capacity.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- Anonymity orders PMC
- Breach of Duty
- Woods (a protected party by her mother and litigation friend Julie Woods) v Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- HLD (by her mother and Litigation Friend KXD) v Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust [2025]
- Hodgson v Hammond duty of care (Bolam and Bolitho) [2025]
- HQA (by her husband and litigation friend, HQK) v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2025]
- Consent and advice
- Tosh v Gupta [2025]
- Winterbotham v Shahrak
- Lochrie v Edwards [2025]
- Scope of contractual obligations
- Bartolomucci (a protected party suing by his litigation friend James M Bartolomucci) v Circle Health Group Ltd [2025]
- Causation but for
- Tuffin v University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- Psychiatric injury and secondary victim claims
- Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Polmear and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust; Purchase and Ahmed
- Practical issues and costs
- Expert alternatives - Prescott-Brann v Chelsea and Westminsters Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Claims involving a mentally incapacitated claimant
- Revisiting mental capacity - An appeal, in CT (by his Litigation Friend the Official Solicitor) v Lambeth London Borough Council [2025]
- ATE/Success Fee - Duffield (a minor, by his mother and litigation friend Ms Sandra Matuleviciute) v WM Morrison Supermarkets Ltd [2025]
- QOCS protection - Read v North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust [2025]
This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Tuesday 16th June 2026
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