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22 February 2007
Issue: 7261 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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MEDICAL LAW

Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [2006] EWHC 3562 (QB), [2007] All ER (D) 148 (Feb)

Where someone dies as the result of alleged clinical negligence and it is alleged that there has been a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, Art 2 (the right to life), the proper test is one of at least gross negligence of a kind sufficient to sustain a charge of manslaughter.

Issue: 7261 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DAC Beachcroft—Paul Brehony

DAC Beachcroft—Paul Brehony

Commercial disputes practice expands with partner hire in London

Ward Hadaway—Maria Coster

Ward Hadaway—Maria Coster

Partner appointed to lead family and matrimonial department in Leeds

Slater Heelis—Helen Marsh

Slater Heelis—Helen Marsh

Commercial property team expands in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
Financial protections for domestic abuse victims would be strengthened and cohabiting couples be given inheritance and separation rights, under historic government proposals
Doctors and nurses could be sued for mistakes made by the artificial intelligence (AI) equipment they use to treat patients, researchers have warned
The law sector has been chosen as the testing ground for the government’s AI Growth Labs—speeding up development, testing and regulatory compliance so software can be market-ready more quickly
A range of options beyond burial, cremation and burial at sea could become legally available, under Law Commission recommendations
Artificial intelligence (AI) legal assistants will be deployed to cut delays in the Crown Court, ministers have announced
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