‘Police and health officials are investigating claims of an NHS “cover-up” over the death of a three-year old boy at Stafford Hospital.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The lawyer investigating claims on behalf of a number of patients whose identities were mistakenly revealed last week by an HIV clinic has said that it could face hundreds of legal claims.’
The Guardian, 5th September 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An application for an extension of time to serve medical evidence by a litigant in person with a mental health disability was refused where there had been a number of breaches and considerable delay, effectivly bringing proceedings to a halt. Appeal to Court of Appeal dismissed.’
Zenith PI Blog, 26th June 2015
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘As an independent investigation finds that mothers and babies might have lived, if not for appalling blunders by staff, and efforts to hide the failings, we look at the history of the Morecambe Bay NHS scandal.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Parents of newborn babies who died due to shocking failings by maternity staff at Furness General Hospital have spoken of how they are “saddened” but “vindicated” by the publication of the damning Morecambe Bay report.’
The Independent, 3rd March 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A court’s obligation to follow any relevant sentencing guidelines unless satisfied that it would be contrary to the interests of justice to do so continued to apply where the offender was suffering from a mental disorder.’
WLR Daily, 4th February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Desmond Rutledge and Zubier Yazdani consider the hurdles facing welfare benefit claimants seeking to use the Cart test.’
Garden Court Chambers, Blog, 6th January 2015
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
‘A man who deliberately “slipped” on a wet bag in a supermarket so he could make a £10,000 insurance claim has been given a suspended jail term.’
BBC News, 5th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The mother of a woman who died as an inpatient at a London hospital has lost a High Court challenge against the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PHSO) over its refusal to investigate the loss of her daughter’s medical records.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th December 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The mother of a young woman who died in hospital is challenging the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PHSO) in the High Court.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘On 15th October 2014, the Court of Appeal had cause to review the manner in which a claimant might find a claim statute barred by reason of constructive knowledge.’
Zenith PI Blog, 5th November 2014
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘One of the difficulties users and practitioners have with the Data Protection Act 1998 is that there is so little case law on any of the provisions, it can be very hard to know how a court will react to the complicated structure and often unusual factual scenarios which can throw up potential claims. There are two reasons why there is so little case law. First, most damages claims under the DPA go to the County Court, where unless you were in the case it is hard to know that it happened or get hold of a judgment. Secondly, most damages claims are for small sums, which is it is more cost-effective to settle than fight.’
Panopticon, 6th June 2014
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘The release of confidential patient details to a state medical institution in the course of her negotiations with a hospital over a lawsuit was an unjustified interference with her right to respect for private life under Article 8.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th April 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The UK’s Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has been asked to investigate whether privacy rules were breached when data collected from hospitals was uploaded to cloud servers operated by Google.’
OUT-LAW.com, 18th March 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘New UK legislation will ban the disclosure of aggregated patient medical records for commercial purposes, according to media reports.’
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A former soldier found hanged gave no indication he was intending to harm himself, an inquest has heard.’
BBC News, 30th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Privacy experts have warned that commercial firms will be able to identify people when they are given access to confidential NHS patient data.’
The Independent, 20th January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The absolute exemption at section 41 extends to information obtained by the public authority the disclosure of which would give to an actionable breach of confidence. Does the obligation of confidence survive the death of the confider? If so, would a breach of that obligation be actionable, even if it is not clear exactly who could bring such an action? These issues arise most notably in the context of medical records. The Upper Tribunal has had something to say on this in two recent decisions.”
Panopticon, 14th November 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
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