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Health and Social Care - Independent
Court finds for Healthcare Defendants : No Duty of Care when advising non-patients to protect them from economic loss
DAC Beachcroft were recently involved in a successful strike out application in which the Court confirmed that there was no duty of care on healthcare ...
Managing Mental Health in the Workplace - HPMA Webinar
Experts from DAC Beachcroft, Katy Horner and Rebecca Cole host a live webinar on behalf of HPMA looking at mental health in the workplace The sessi ...
Wrongful birth: clinical negligence compensation for poor advice
Consider the following scenario: expectant parents attend an antenatal clinic where they are told that the fetus is healthy. This advice is negligentl ...
Mental Health Act Review - Impact in Practice?
What does the future hold for the Mental Health Act? With the full report of the government-commissioned independent review of the Mental Health Act n ...
Supreme Court Judgment in MM - Clarity at Last?
Finally, we now have the Supreme Court conclusion to the long-running issue of conditional discharge and deprivation of liberty. In this briefing, we ...
Appeal decision calls into question the merit of early Summary Judgment Applications - Hewes v West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust & Others
In June we reported a successful Summary Judgment application by the Defendant in Hewes v West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust & Others. We must ...
Latest on when to go to court in 'no dispute' treatment cases
Although the Supreme Court decided earlier this year in 'Y' that it is not mandatory to seek court approval before withdrawing clinically assisted nut ...
Health Adviser Issue 19
The latest version of our Health Adviser magazine is now available online, click on the articles below to find out more. Health Adviser is an industry ...
