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Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence: England and Wales rulings on HIE causation, CPR 35 expert replacement and rugby injury appeal timing and Part 36; Northern Ireland discount rate regulations

Published on: 27 June 2024

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PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights—27 June 2024

In this issue:

  • Clinical negligence
  • Case management
  • High court decides on consequential matters in claim involving injury sustained during rugby match
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Clinical negligence

Minor’s claim for damages for negligent management during labour and delivery dismissed

In LN (a child, by his litigation friend, MC) v Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 1478 (KB), the King’s Bench Division rejected the child claimant’s action seeking compensation for personal injuries and consequential losses said to have resulted from the negligent handling of his mother’s labour and birth by the defendant NHS Trust. A post‑natal chest X‑ray demonstrated a large right‑sided tension pneumothorax with mediastinal shift. By the time of the proceedings, the medical experts were agreed that the claimant showed evidence of delayed development, with some continuing difficulties, and a history of visual issues alongside speech and language impairments. They further agreed there were executive functioning deficits and that the claimant displayed weaknesses in activities of daily living...

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