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Report 22-05-2020
The future of care: is technology the answer?
This report looks at who currently bears the cost of funding personal care for those with catastrophic injuries, and the need to better manage these costs in future.
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Case review 12-05-2020
Explaining treatment options and risks post-Montgomery
In the Scottish case of Johnstone v NHS Grampian, the Court of Session found that the pursuer’s consent to medical treatment had been given on the basis of sufficient information about the alternative treatments available and the potential risks of treatment so as to be ‘Montgomery compliant’.
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News 06-05-2020
Kennedys in Australia announces partner promotion in Melbourne
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Case review 05-05-2020
The scope of the duty of care of a junior doctor
The Scottish Court of Session judgment in Andrews v Greater Glasgow Health Board addresses the scope of the duty of care of a junior doctor; and whether a case will fail on causation, if a precise point in time when an event would have occurred could not be determined.
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News 01-05-2020
Kennedys celebrates office anniversary by launching Sheffield healthcare practice with new partner hire
We are pleased to announce that we have hired healthcare partner, Tom Armstrong, to head up a new healthcare team based in our Sheffield office, which opened in 2010. Tom, who joins from Browne Jacobson, will lead a team in Sheffield able to defend clinical negligence claims against GPs, NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers. Tom will be working closely with our healthcare lawyers in Birmingham, Cambridge and London.
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Article 01-05-2020
COVID-19 Insurance Update: 1 May 2020
Financial Conduct Authority has announced it intends to ask the courts to rule on whether a ‘representative sample of the most frequently used’ BI policy wording provide cover for COVID-19 related losses.
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Article 24-04-2020
COVID-19: difficulties for mental health practitioners and legislative change
Whilst measures are being taken to protect the public and the NHS against COVID-19, mental health practitioners face particularly difficult issues in responding to the challenges that COVID-19 presents.
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Article 23-04-2020
Legal liabilities and indemnities in healthcare relating to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented challenge for healthcare professionals and the NHS as a whole. We examine the indemnity position, applicable standard of care and the approach of regulators.
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Article 23-04-2020
COVID-19 and the ethical and legal challenges with limited resources
Treatment of patients tends to be centred on a best interest approach to decision making, but if demand for the exhaustible supply of resources exceeds their availability, treatment in a patient’s best interests may not be possible. Here we explore some of the profound questions that this raises.
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Article 23-04-2020
COVID-19: the postponement of non-urgent procedures and ensuring appropriate priority for clinically urgent treatment
COVID-19 is an unprecedented public health emergency - it is likely to be the biggest challenge the NHS and private healthcare providers have faced and has necessitated extensive reallocation of resources.