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Law digests: 15 October 2021

15 October 2021
Issue: 7952 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Clinical negligence

Thorley (by his litigation friend) v Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 2604 (QB), [2021] All ER (D) 09 (Oct)

The Queen’s Bench Division dismissed a clinical negligence claim brought by a claimant who had been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, and who had suffered an ischaemic stroke which had resulted in permanent and severe physical and cognitive disability. The court held, among other things, that, in advising the claimant to stop warfarin for a period of four days before a coronary angiogram, the defendant Trust had not breached its duty of care to him. Further, in circumstances where the Trust denied breach of duty, save to admit that warfarin should have been restarted by no later than the day after the angiogram, the court held that, on the facts, the Trust had not been in breach of duty beyond the extent which it had admitted.


Duty of care

Lennon and another v Englefield and others [2021] EWHC 1473 (QB), [2021] All ER (D) 108 (Jun)

The Queen’s

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Jersey litigation lead appointed to global STEP Council

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

Firm invests in future talent with new training cohort

NEWS
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
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