27 July Case Updates Toby Chaplin (by his mother and litigation friend, Diane Chaplin) v Ben Pistol, Allianz Insurance Plc [2020] EWHC 1543 (QB), 2020 WL 03254432 Personal injury, Life expectancy, Statistics, 10. Report Writing, 06. Receiving Instructions, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Personal injury litigation Topics: Life expectancy Statistics
27 July Case Updates Darrell Stewart Jones v Ministry of Defence [2020] EWHC 1603 (QB), 2020 WL 03415114 Causation, Clinical negligence, Life expectancy, HIV, Delayed diagnosis, 10. Report Writing, 06. Receiving Instructions, 14. Giving Oral Evidence, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: General Clinical negligence Topics: Life expectancy Delayed diagnosis HIV Causation
6 July Case Updates Dr X, Medical Practitioners Tribunal, 2020 Capacity cases, Medical health, Tribunal, Litigants in person, Top-up fees, Expert's behaviour, 02. Setting Fees and Getting Paid, 06. Receiving Instructions, 07. Working with Instructing Parties, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Issues: Capacity Expert’s behaviour Litigants in person Top-up fees
18 April Case Updates DSN v Blackpool Football Club Limited [2020] EWHC 595 (QB), 2020 WL 01234791 Historic, Child abuse, Limitation, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Historical child abuse Topic: Limitation
1 March Case Updates Tower Hamlets LBC v A 2020 WL 01987279 Capacity cases, Care, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Capacity cases Topic: Capacity to decide where to live Capacity to make care decision
1 March Case Updates A Healthcare, B NHS Trust v CC (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) [2020] EWHC 574 (Fam), 2020 WL 01159447 Capacity cases, Mental Health Act 1983, Consent to treatment, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Capacity cases Topic: Consent to treatment and the Mental Health Act 1983 Mental Health Act 1983, s 63
1 March Case Updates Dempsey v Government of the United States of America [2020] EWHC 603 (Admin), 2020 WL 01235532 Criminal, Extradition case, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Criminal Topic: Extradition
1 March Case Updates A Clinical Commissioning Group v AF [2020] EWCOP 16, 2020 WL 01494079 Capacity cases, Best interest, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits “Avoiding a macabre experiment” Relevance: Capacity cases Topics: Best interests
1 March Case Updates Walaszczyk v Regional Court of Law in Czestochowa, Poland [2020] EWHC 849 (Admin), 2020 WL 01695206 Extradition case, Mental disorder, Threshold level, 05. Rules and Regulations, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Extradition cases Topic: Threshold level of mental disorder necessary to prevent extradition
1 March Case Updates McLennan v General Medical Council [2020] CSIH 12 [2020] 4 WLUK 119 Covert recording, Report drafting, Consultation, Doctor, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits “Trust me, I’m a doctor” Relevance: General. Topic: Report drafting (accuracy). Covert audio recording of consultation