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

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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.

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