The discount rate fallout continues
The discount rate fallout is set to continue, says Michael Mylonas QC.
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Bell v The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWCA Civ 1363
Written by Emma Sutton for for Medical Law Reports on 10 December 2021.
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Roberts v Johnstone is dead
John de Bono QC discusses the Lord Chancellor’s announcement that the discount rate would be revised from 2.5% to -0.75%. This clearly has major implications for the calculation of future losses and will lead to much higher awards and settlements than we have seen before.
The Latest on consent and causation
Katie Gollop QC and Frances McClenaghan discuss the recent Court of Appeal decision in Webster v Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board: transforming informed consent
Adrian Hopkins QC co-writes an article in the Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons concerning the landmark decision of the Supreme Court in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board. The article was co-written by Angela Coulter, senior research scientist at the University of Oxford and Ben Moulton, senior vice-president of the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, Boston, MA, US.