As has been widely reported we recently acted on behalf of the family of Julienne McKay-Hall the woman who tragically died following weight loss surgery. As reported, the Coroner’s findings are a scathing condemnation of both the relevant surgeon Dr Ahmad’s care and that of nursing staff at St John of God Hospital in Murdoch.
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time limits for latent medical claims (and other personal injuries) ARE retrospectively now set by 2005 Law
By Julian Johnson on
Posted in Our Cases
As a post-script to my post a couple of weeks ago, I confirm that Judge Schoombee has handed down her decision in Lola Phillips’ case.
This confirms that whether or not negligent care was before or after the Law change in November 2005, the date from which time to make claim starts to run is…
Time for Claim – Clarification of current position (a little..)
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The Limitation Act 2005 came into effect in Nov 2005. Surprisingly, for non-lawyers anyway, there remains a fair amount of uncertainty as to such new scheme’s effect in several important respects, particularly:
- in terms of the time for claims alleging medical negligence. This uncertainty is not as to the overall time (which in most case
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Does a Doctor have a duty to inform of Disciplinary Action/Restrictions?
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Working this afternoon on a claim for a client who suffered serious complications as a consequence of gynae surgery, performed by a surgeon who has recently (and previously) been the subject of disciplinary action by the (now defunct) State Medical Board.
The interesting question that arises, following my client learning of such disciplinary action which
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