Category Archives: Medical Law

What price a life?

By | February 1, 2026

‘But they ‘killed’ my mother – and her life is only worth £8,000’! This will be familiar to most clinical negligence and personal injury lawyers – albeit that in a negligence case there was no intention to kill.  It was someone’s death by negligence.  Another client recently expressed her ‘embarrassment’ at such a low value… Read More »

What standard of care should you expect from the NHS?

By | June 25, 2025

If you are referred to a consultant for surgery in the NHS, can you insist that the consultant him or herself carries out the surgery rather than a more junior member of his / her team?  This issue came up recently in a new clinical negligence claim we are investigating.  Prior to the surgery being… Read More »