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li, 548 pages ; 25 cm |
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Contents note continued: 'Not intended to have formal status' (para 3.20) -- 'Four months' (para 3.21) -- 'Offer to settle' (para 3.22) -- 11.4.The response -- commentary -- 'Letter of response' (para 3.23) -- 'Within four months' (para 3.25) -- 'Admissions will be binding' (para 3.25) -- 'Respond to that offer' (para 3.26) -- 11.5.Experts -- commentary -- Use of experts (para 4.2) -- 11.6.Alternative dispute resolution -- commentary -- ch. 12 Case Management Directions -- 12.1.Directions questionnaires -- 12.2.Directions -- Deadlines in directions -- Standard directions -- Allocation -- Preservation of evidence -- Maintenance of records and reports -- Trial of preliminary issue -- Disclosure and inspection -- Witness statements -- Statements of treating doctors -- Experts -- Permission to adduce expert evidence -- Choice between separately or jointly instructed experts -- Number of experts per specialism -- Exchange of expert evidence -- Permission to call experts at trial -- |
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Contents note continued: 14.6.The documents and the final letter of instruction -- 14.7.On receipt of the report -- 14.8.Deadlines -- 14.9.Conference with counsel -- 14.10.Availability of experts -- 14.11.Teamwork -- 14.12.Immunity from suit -- Top Tips -- ch. 15 Part 36 Offers -- 15.1.Introduction -- 15.2.General principles -- The forensic approach -- Scope of Part 36 offers -- Offers on issues -- Offers in appeals -- Offers in costs proceedings -- 15.3.Making a Part 36 offer -- Service -- How to make a Part 36 offer -- Failure to comply with form and content -- Reviewing a Part 36 offer -- Costs inclusive offers -- 'Total capitulation' offers -- Offers without adequate CRU information -- Other ineffective offers -- Clarification -- Multiple defendants -- Single sum of money -- Format -- 15.4.Withdrawing and changing a Part 36 offer -- Withdrawing a Part 36 offer -- Changing a Part 36 offer -- Tactics on withdrawing or changing a Part 36 offer -- When to withdraw an offer -- |
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Contents note continued: 9.6.Amendments outside the limitation period -- 9.7.Limitation and the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 -- 9.8.Date of knowledge -- The statutory provisions -- Utility of these provisions -- Approach to these provisions -- Burden of proof -- 9.9.Components of knowledge -- Knowledge of what? -- Significant injury -- The injury -- 'Significant' -- An objective test -- Attributability -- The meaning of 'attributable to' -- Identifying a relevant act -- Identifying a relevant omission -- The acquisition of knowledge without expert advice -- Expert advice -- Identity of the defendant -- 9.10.The quality of knowledge -- Knowing or believing? -- Knowledge is not lost -- Whose knowledge? -- 9.11.Constructive knowledge -- Section 14(3) sets out an objective test -- The reasonable claimant -- 9.12.Applications under S 33 of the Limitation Act 1980 -- Overview -- The discretion under S 33 -- Section 33(3)(a): delay -- Section 33(3)(b): cogency of the evidence -- |
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Contents note continued: Appendix 4 Useful Organisations |
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Contents note continued: Cogency issues: witness evidence -- Cogency issues: documentary evidence -- Section 33(3)(c): the defendant's conduct -- Section 33(3)(d): the duration of any disability of the claimant -- Section 33(3)(e): prompt and reasonable action by the claimant -- Section 33(3)(f): steps taken by the claimant to obtain expert evidence -- Additional Factors: the merits and value of the claim -- Top Tips -- ch. 10 Claims Involving Medical Products -- 10.1.Introduction -- Product liability -- 10.2.Sources of law -- The Consumer Protection Act 1987 -- The Product Liability Directive -- 10.3.Applicable law -- Essential features -- What is a product? -- The producer and intermediate supplier liability -- Is the product 'defective'? -- Causation -- Damage -- Defences -- He did not put the product into circulation -- The defect did not exist when he put the product into circulation -- The product was not made or distributed for a commercial or economic purpose -- |
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Contents note continued: Costs consequences on acceptance of a Part 36 offer after the relevant period -- Claimant accepting late -- Defendant accepting late -- 15.7.Costs consequences of a Part 36 offer on judgment (whole claim) -- 15.7.1.Judgment -- Consequences for the defendant -- Consequences for the claimant -- Costs consequences of withdrawn or changed Part 36 offers -- 'Unjust'? -- 'Advantageous'? -- Costs consequences of a Part 36 offer after judgment on a preliminary issue -- 2013 transitional provisions -- Top Tips -- ch. 16 Mediation and ADR -- 16.1.Why have mediation and ADR become so important? -- Historical context -- 16.2.What is meant by mediation? -- 16.3.What other forms of ADR are there in clinical negligence claims? -- 16.4.The legal framework -- The government's stance in the drive for mediation and ADR -- The role of the judiciary -- The decision in Halsey V Milton Keynes General NHS Trust -- |
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Contents note continued: Directions in relation to expert evidence -- Review of pleadings by experts -- Review of expert evidence in the context of exchanged factual evidence -- 13.8.Exchange of expert evidence -- The expert report -- Review of the exchanged expert evidence -- 13.9.Clarification of expert evidence under the provisions of CPR Part -- 13.10.Expert discussions -- CPR 35.12 -- When should expert discussions take place? -- Model directions -- Format and timing of expert discussions -- The agenda -- Expert preparation for discussion -- The joint statement -- Lawyers at expert discussions -- 13.11.Review of outcome of expert discussions -- 13.12.Pre-trial preparation with experts -- 13.13.Consecutive expert evidence: 'hot tubbing' -- 13.14.Trial -- Top Tips -- ch. 14 Instructing an Expert: A Medic's Perspective -- 14.1.Introduction -- 14.2.Which expert? -- 14.3.The letter of approach -- 14.4.'Brief preliminary' reports -- 14.5.The witness statement(s) -- |
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Contents note continued: Exceptional funding -- VHCC contracts -- Prescribed rates for lawyers -- Prescribed rates for experts -- Notice of public funding -- Costs protection in publicly funded cases -- Public funding or CFA? -- Cases funded with conditional fee agreements -- Statutory requirements -- Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2013 -- Risk assessment -- Setting success fees under CPAs made on or after 1 April 2013 -- Base costs -- Form of the CPA -- Transfer of cases -- Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer's Home or Place of Work etc Regulations 2008 and the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 -- Counsel -- Cases funded by damages-based agreements -- 4.3.Adverse costs -- Qualified one-way costs shifting -- Before the event insurance policy -- After the event insurance -- 4.4.Client's personal risk and/or solicitor indemnity -- 4.5.Client remedies -- Top Tips -- ch. 5 The Inquest -- 5.1.Background -- History -- |
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Contents note continued: Holidays -- Interest on past losses -- Future loss of income -- Smith V Manchester Corporation -- Future care cost valued commercially -- Pension loss -- Accommodation -- Fatal claims -- Lost years -- Top Tips -- ch. 19 Current Issues in the Assessment of Damages -- 19.1.Introduction -- 19.2.Periodical payments -- 19.3.Indexation -- 19.4.DCA Consultation Paper The Law on Damages -- Wrongful death and bereavement damages (Chapters 1 and 2) -- Psychiatric illness (Chapter 3) -- Collateral benefits and gratuitous care (Chapter 4) -- Cost of private care (Chapter 5) -- Accommodation expenses (Chapter 6) -- 19.4.6.The 10 per cent increase in general damages -- Top Tips -- Appendix 1 Medical Glossary -- Appendix 2 Sample Clinical Notes -- (1).Sample Clinical Notes with Medical Abbreviations -- (2).Sample Clinical Notes in Full -- Appendix 3 Model Directions for Clinical Negligence Cases (2012) -- before Master Roberts and Master Cook -- |
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Contents note continued: Human Rights Act 1998 -- Costs of a challenge -- Protective costs order -- Top Tips -- ch. 6 Medical Treatment and Human Rights -- 6.1.The right of inviolability of person -- ECHR and autonomy -- Application of the right of autonomy -- Sanctity of life, autonomy, and reconciliation of conflicting moral principles -- 6.2.Capacity, necessity and best interests -- Capacity -- Necessity -- Capacity at common law -- Capacity and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 -- Best interests under MCA 2005 -- Section 5: acts in connection with care or treatment -- 6.3.The right to medical treatment on the NHS -- Public law 'rights' to treatment -- exceptional circumstances -- Challenges to government guidance -- Other sources of guidance -- Summary -- A right to treatment abroad -- The case for treatment abroad under Article 56 TFEU (formerly Article 49 EC) -- Overseas visitors -- rights to treatment -- 6.4.Right to life -- the common law and Human Rights Act 1998 -- |
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Contents note continued: Medical literature -- Conflicts of interest -- Experts' discussions -- Purpose of experts' discussions -- Attendance by solicitors at experts' discussions -- Agendas for experts' discussions -- Requirement to advise experts of the timetable -- Schedules -- Preliminary outline schedule -- Service of schedules -- Trial directions -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Review CMC/pre-trial review -- 12.3.Problem areas in directions -- Variation by agreement -- The claimant's case manager -- Statutory services provision -- Periodical payments -- Financial advisers -- 12.4.Pre-trial checklists -- Timetable for trial -- Top Tips -- ch. 13 Experts -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.Choice of experts -- 13.3.The number of experts -- 13.4.Finding and approaching new experts -- 13.5.Joint or single experts -- 13.6.Instructing the expert -- Documents -- The letter of instruction -- 13.7.Review of expert evidence -- Initial review of expert evidence -- |
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Contents note continued: Pagination -- Chronology -- 2.8.Understanding the records -- Supplying records -- Hearsay evidence -- Abbreviations -- Top Tips -- ch. 3 NHS Complaints Procedure and Redress -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Services covered by the NHS complaint procedure -- 3.3.Stage One: local resolution -- Time limits -- The process -- Meetings -- Serious Untoward Investigations -- SUIs -- 3.4.Stage Two: the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman -- Making a complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman -- Potential outcome of the NHS complaint procedure -- 3.5.Appeals -- 3.6.Recent or forthcoming changes to the NHS complaints procedure -- The Care Quality Commission -- Health watch -- Redress -- The Francis Report 2013 and more recently the Clwyd-Hart Report on NHS complaints published in November 2013 -- 3.7.Professional regulations -- The General Medical Council Complaints Procedure -- What will the GMC investigate? -- Possible action by the GMC -- |
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Contents note continued: Res ipsa loquitur -- Errors of judgment -- Top Tips -- ch. 8 Causation -- 8.1.Standard of proof and causation of loss in damages assessment -- 8.2.Touchstone principles -- 8.3.Standard of proof: the balance of probabilities test -- 8.4.Causation and the application of the balance of probabilities test -- 8.5.Material contribution causation and quantification of damages -- 8.6.Apportionment of damages for material contribution -- 8.7.The eggshell skull principle and second torts -- Top Tips -- ch. 9 Limitation -- 9.1.Limitation and claims involving personal injury -- Litigation risk -- Case planning for claimants -- Case planning for defendants -- 9.2.Disability -- meaning and effect -- Minors -- Mental incapacity -- 9.3.Assault and trespass cases -- 9.4.Limitation and the Human Rights Act 1998 -- Time-limits for applications -- Article 6 and the Limitation Act 1980 -- 9.5.Products: Consumer Protection Act 1987 -- |
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Contents note continued: Statute -- Office -- 5.2.Jurisdiction -- 5.3.The post-mortem -- The pathologist -- A second post-mortem? -- Releasing the body -- The post-mortem report -- 5.4.The inquest -- The issues -- Opening -- The pre-inquest review hearing -- The resumed hearing -- Documents -- Advance disclosure -- Unused material -- Briefing relatives -- Interested party -- Jury -- The extent of the inquiry -- Article 2 ECHR -- Criteria for compliance -- Conditions for engagement -- Witnesses -- Examination -- 5.6.Experts -- 5.7.The determination -- Unlawful killing -- Accidental death -- Neglect -- Narrative verdict -- 5.8.Content of determination -- Recommendations -- 5.9.Funding -- Public funding -- Obtaining exceptional funding -- Extent of funding -- Funding limitations -- The statutory charge -- Contribution -- Recovering inquest costs -- 5.10.After the inquest -- Complaining -- Challenging the coroner -- Judicial review -- Section 13 applications -- |
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Contents note continued: The costs -- are they a bar to a mediation at all or can they be kept down? -- 16.10.Conclusion -- Appendix -- Top Tips -- ch. 17 Entitlement to Damages -- 17.1.Introduction -- 17.2.Claiming compensation -- 17.3.General and special damages -- 17.4.Redress and worth in clinical negligence actions -- 17.5.The evolution of schedules of loss -- The need for a schedule of loss and basic guidance -- 17.6.Components of a schedule -- General damages -- Assessment of general damages -- Interest on general damages -- Past economic losses -- Interest on past loss -- Future loss (multipliers and multiplicands) -- Changes to the 'lump sum' principle, leading to periodical payments -- Aggravated and exemplary damages -- Top Tips -- ch. 18 Schedules of Loss -- 18.1.Preparing a schedule of loss -- Claimants witness evidence -- Types of schedule -- Content of a detailed schedule of loss -- Past loss of income -- Past expenses -- Gratuitous care -- Aids and equipment -- |
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Contents note continued: The defect is due to regulatory compliance -- The state of scientific and technical knowledge did not enable the defect to be discovered -- Producer of components not liable for defect of product as a whole -- Contributory negligence -- Claims for contribution -- 10.4.Limitation -- Primary limitation period -- Suspension, interruption and discretionary extension of the limitation period -- Law reform and Fatal Accidents Act claims -- The long-stop -- 10.5.Pleading the case -- The particulars of claim -- The defence -- The reply -- 10.6.Alternative causes of action in private medicine -- Top Tips -- ch. 11 The Clinical Negligence Pre-Action Protocol -- 11.1.General commentary -- 11.2.Medical records -- commentary -- 'Within 40 days' (paras 3.9 and 3.12) -- Access to Health Records Act 1990 -- Data Protection Act 1998 -- Cost 262 Health records from a third party (para 3.13) -- 11.3.Letter of claim - commentary -- Recommended contents (para 3.19) -- |
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Contents note continued: The value and sanctity of life -- Assisted suicide -- Doctor assisted suicide and double effect -- Advance directives/decisions -- refusals -- Advance decisions -- requests -- Conclusions -- Top Tips -- ch. 7 The Duty of Care, Standard of Care and Establishing Breach of Duty -- 7.1.Duty -- Clinician -- Institutional health care provider -- Joint liability and contribution -- Contract -- Duty to third parties -- Provision of health care abroad and NHS care in private institutions -- Expert witnesses -- Scope of the duty of care -- 7.2.What is the appropriate standard of care? -- Bolam -- Bolitho -- Specialist -- Inexperience -- Limits to Bolam -- Prevention of self-harm -- Disclosure of risks -- 7.3.Psychiatric injury -- 7.4.Economic loss -- 7.5.Communication negligence -- 7.6.Defences -- Contributory negligence -- Volenti non fit injuria -- Illegality -- 7.7.Establishing breach -- Absence of practice -- Departure from usual practice -- |
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Contents note continued: What the GMC cannot do -- Nursing and Midwifery Council complaints procedure -- What will the NMC investigate? -- Possible sanctions by the NMC -- Other professional organisations -- Complaints about private health treatment -- Other organisations that can help -- Top Tips -- ch. 4 The Funding of Clinical Negligence Claims -- 4.1.Initial instructions and funding -- The retainer -- Pre-screening work -- Available funding options -- Preliminary investigations -- The Solicitors Code of Conduct -- 4.2.Alternative methods of funding cases -- Private client -- Cases funded with legal expenses insurance -- Fundamental terms -- Scope of policy -- Panel solicitors -- Retainer -- Acting for a BTE client under a CPA -- Continuing duties to insurer -- Cases funded by trade unions -- Cases funded by 'litigation funding' or 'third party funding' -- Cases funded by litigation loans -- Cases funded with public funding -- Overview -- Neurological birth injuries -- |
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Contents note continued: When to change an offer -- When to make a new offer -- How to withdraw or change a Part 36 offer -- 15.5.Accepting a Part 36 offer -- Multiple defendants -- CRU -- Fatal claims -- During the trial -- After the trial -- Approval -- Exercise of discretion for permission -- When permission to accept is not required -- Acceptance with multiple defendants -- Acceptance with multiple offers -- Acceptance after earlier rejection -- How to accept a Part 36 offer -- Ineffective acceptance -- Agreement or agreement to agree? -- Acceptance or counter offer? -- Strike out -- Judgment -- Compromise -- General discretion and mistake -- Action following acceptance -- Effect of acceptance -- Timescale for payment -- Enforcement -- Indemnity -- 15.6.Costs consequences of Part 36 offers -- Preliminaries to costs consequences under Part 36 -- Costs consequences on acceptance of a Part 36 offer within the relevant period -- |
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Contents note continued: What did the Court of Appeal lay down in terms of general principles? -- The ADR/mediation case management orders made in clinical negligence cases -- Decisions post Halsey -- Do the courts make ADR in some form inevitable? -- 16.5.ADR by means of a round table meeting -- Why a round table meeting? -- What happens at a round table meeting? -- What needs to be done before such a meeting? -- The role of the lay client -- The possible perils of not being prepared -- 16.6.Mediation -- the practical experience -- Setting the stage -- why a mediation? -- What can such a mediator bring that is genuinely 'added value'? -- Choosing your mediator -- The lead up to a mediation -- 16.7.The mediation itself -- The opening session -- The private sessions -- The outcome -- 16.8.Examples of ADR in practice in multi party action cases -- 16.9.Some potential pitfalls and problems of mediation and auk -- Confidentiality and privilege -- Getting the agreement right -- |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Coping with Trauma -- 1.1.What is trauma? -- 1.2.Individual reactions -- Anger -- Physical symptoms -- Vulnerability -- 1.3.Recovery -- 1.4.Dealing with the traumatised client -- Telephone interviewing strategies -- Interview room strategies -- Homework -- Time -- What not to do! -- 1.5.Coping strategies for interviewers -- 1.6.Referral agencies -- Top Tips -- ch. 2 Medical Records -- 2.1.Obtaining the records -- Surviving patients -- Right to privacy -- Fees -- Failure to disclose -- 2.2.Deceased patients -- Right to privacy -- GP records -- Fees -- 2.3.The records -- X-rays -- Accuracy -- 2.4.Applying for records -- GP records -- NHS trust hospital records -- Private treatment -- 2.5.Amending records -- 2.6.Complaints and inquiry records -- 2.7.Contents of medical records -- GP records -- Checking the records -- Sorting the records -- Cross-checking -- Hospital records -- Checking the records -- Sorting the records -- Cross-checking -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Previous edition: 2008 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Actions and defenses -- England.
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Medical personnel -- Malpractice -- England.
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Medical personnel -- Malpractice -- Great Britain.
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Physicians -- Malpractice -- England.
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| Author |
Balen, Paul, editor of compilation
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Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
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| LC no. |
2015372587 |
| ISBN |
9781846618222 (paperback) |
