Insights On Medical Negligence Issues From The Perth Area And Throughout Australia
The UK has recently altered its position in relation to the important question of a doctor’s obligations to warn their patients concerning risks of treatment.
Preceding the decision in Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, delivered on 11 March 2015, the UK had long maintained its acceptance of the so-called Bolam principle, reiterated…
In this decision delivered by Judge Stevenson of the District Court on 23 December 2009, Judge Stevenson concluded that he had no power to extend the time for commencement of a claim under the 2005 Limitation Act, in relation to a child born prior to such Act’s commencement.
The case, in which I am involved…
