Description
This half day course has been specifically designed for clinical negligence expert witnesses (both new and experienced). By way of both case examples and a Q&A session, this interactive course will review substantive clinical negligence law. In particular, it will explore the legal concepts and principles applicable to clinical negligence cases, which it is essential the expert witness understands and is up to date with. It will also explore the practical effect and impact of those concepts and principles on clinical negligence cases.
The course can be attended either as a free-standing course or in conjunction with Clinical Negligence Essentials Part 2: the practical aspects of being a clinical negligence expert
What you will learn
Key topics covered:
- The law relating to clinical negligence and the practicalities for you as a clinical negligence expert
- What is required to be proved in clinical negligence claims
- Duty of care owed by medical and health professionals, including when a duty is owed, to whom and for what
- Breach of duty and standard of care, including the tests applied with particular consideration of Bolam, Bolitho and Montgomery
- Consent post-Montgomery
- Causation, including the ‘but for’ and ‘material contribution’ tests, remoteness and scope of duty
- An interactive case example helping demonstrate the above
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