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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

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
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Writing in NLJ this week, Thomas Rothwell and Kavish Shah of Falcon Chambers unpack the surprise inclusion of a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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