Clinical negligence
Thorley (by his litigation friend) v Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 2604 (QB), [2021] All ER (D) 09 (Oct)
The Queen’s Bench Division dismissed a clinical negligence claim brought by a claimant who had been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, and who had suffered an ischaemic stroke which had resulted in permanent and severe physical and cognitive disability. The court held, among other things, that, in advising the claimant to stop warfarin for a period of four days before a coronary angiogram, the defendant Trust had not breached its duty of care to him. Further, in circumstances where the Trust denied breach of duty, save to admit that warfarin should have been restarted by no later than the day after the angiogram, the court held that, on the facts, the Trust had not been in breach of duty beyond the extent which it had admitted.
Duty of care
Lennon and another v Englefield and others [2021] EWHC 1473 (QB), [2021] All ER (D) 108 (Jun)
The Queen’s Bench Division held that the Money Laundering Regulations 2007, SI
