APIL urges NHS to prioritise patient safety through a reform strategy including enforcing a legal “duty of candour”.   The NHS must make...

The bereaved parents of a toddler who died from the flu after a “catalogue of failings” by a hospital say they are still waiting for...

The government has rejected the arguments of compensators and their lawyers that increasing the fees for medical reports for road traffic...

The value of the medico-legal market grew by 4% in 2024, double the growth rate of the previous year, researchers have estimated. A...

The High Court has rejected the evidence of an expert witness who had “little or no regard” to the Civil Procedure Rules and was “prepared materially to mislead the court”. Mr Justice Martin Spencer also struck out the claims of two of the claimants because, notwithstanding their witness statements, it emerged during cross-examination that they could neither speak nor read English. He described this as “a virtual contempt of the proceedings of this court”. The claims arose f

There has been a recent flurry of press reports of legal cases against healthcare providers in which claimants have been denied...

The prospect of a fixed costs regime being applied to clinical negligence claims appears to be receding, with no progress on fleshing out...

Recent data suggests that the government’s whiplash reforms are having long-lasting effects. The data, from the government’s Compensation...

The gap between the number of road traffic accident injuries and the number of motor injury claims continues to widen, according to the...

Consolidation in the clincial negligence market will continue as the market slows over the next couple of years, a report has suggested....

The Supreme Court has ruled that personal injury clients need to have been informed of the solicitors’ bill – and agreed to it – before...

A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a...

Introduction – The extension of fixed recoverable costs 1. Pursuant to Sir Rupert Jackson’s proposals from 2017, the civil litigation...

A mental health trust fined over previous patient deaths and subject to investigation over inadequate care has paid out more than £2.5m...

A report has revealed that four serious mistakes known as ‘never events’ took place at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust...

A grieving family is seeking long-awaited answers at an inquest into the death of their three-year-old daughter who died after doctors...

A n eight-year-old girl tragically died of sepsis hours after being sent home twice by a GP who advised her mother to hydrate her and...

The increasing rate of clinical negligence claims is indicative of the poor state of the NHS in England, a damning...

New statistics from the Ministry of Justice show an uptick in personal injury claims and continuing challenges with delays and access to...

Claimant and defence chiefs in the clinical negligence sector have announced a renewed commitment to collaboration. The clinical...