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Witness evidence: is it just one person’s word against another’s?

Where there is a dispute of facts, people often think it is just one person’s word against another’s. In reality, most of the time, it is not. Clinical negligence cases do not normally depend on what witnesses of fact say. Expert evidence is usually more important. The key issues tend to be whether care was […]

Medical manslaughter

On 6 February 2018, Jeremy Hunt announced a rapid review into applying the offence of gross negligence manslaughter (GNM) to healthcare professionals. This flowed from the general outcry into the conviction of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba – a specialist registrar in the sixth year of her postgraduate training. She was held to be responsible for the […]