Does the Chief Medical Officer’s report into clinical negligence in the NHS signal the end of the Bolam test? Nicholas Wilkes discusses the merits of the old method as against new plans On 30 June ...

Nadine Montgomery (a diabetic) had, as shown on ultrasound scans, a large baby in utero. This heightened the risk of shoulder dystocia (the shoulders becoming stuck in the birth canal) during birth by ...

For the first time outside a medical context, the High Court declined to apply the traditional Bolam v Friern Barnet Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582 test for the standard of care in ...

Simon Wessely is president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Gregory Smith works for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which opposes the Access to Medical Treatments (Innovation) Bill The Access ...

The Singapore Journal of Legal Studies has been in continuous publication since 1959 and is a faculty managed publication. Submissions are subject to anonymous peer review by subject specialists ...

In 2018, a one Irene sued Marie Stopes, a health service provider, for medical negligence, when her uterus was perforated in the process of inserting an Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device (IUD), a ...