Centenary Issue

The 100th volume of Butterworths Medico-Legal Reports (BMLR) will be published this month. Based on the format of the All England Law Reports, this comprehensive series offers expert reporting of cases on a wide range of areas such as medical negligence, consent to treatment, NHS administrative and employment law, pharmaceutical products, quantum damages, mental health and the conduct of medical bodies. Overseen by the academic editors from Cardiff University, some of whom founded the series, the first case BMLR published was the controversial case of Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee (1957) 1 BMLR 1 in which it was decided there was no breach of standard of care if a responsible body of similar professionals support the practice that caused the injury.