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27 February 2015
Issue: 7642 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Negligence

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Sumner v Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust and another [2015] EWHC 293 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 173 (Feb)

The Queen’s Bench Division considered a claim for clinical negligence arising from the admittedly inappropriate treatment of a patient with an unstable fracture of the spine which was initially misdiagnosed as stable. The claimant proved causation on the balance of probabilities.

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