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Watch out! Human Rights Act places NHS trusts under a specific duty to protect suicidal patients from killing themselves: Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Trust: House of Lords

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 31 2008

Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights places a duty on NHS trusts to do all that can be reasonably expected of them to prevent patients who present a real and immediate risk of suicide from succeeding

Challenge to human-animal embryology denied

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 23 2008

The High Court has ruled that the Christian Legal Centre's challenge to creating human-animal embryos for research purposes was "totally without merit"

Zeller v British Cayman Insurance Co Ltd importance of insured’s good faith when completing proposal form for health insurance

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 19 2008

An insurer was not entitled to repudiate liability under a health insurance contract where the insured had answered the questions on the health questionnaire completely and correctly to the best of his knowledge and belief

In brief

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 12 2007

E-filing of documents at the Commercial Court (known as phase 2 of CC IT) has slipped back a year

Liability for employee’s suicide

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 16 2008

The House of Lords has upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal in Corr (Administratrix of the Estate of Thomas Corr (deceased)) v IBC Vehicles Limited, which found that an employer was liable under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 for the suicide of an employee who had suffered from severe depression after being seriously injured in a workplace accident

Mental Health Act suicide of abscondee NHSLA petitions HOL for leave to appeal

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 16 2008

In the February 2008 edition of the Health update we reported on the Court of Appeal's decision in the case of Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Trust

Unlawful killing verdict returned by inquest jury against an NHS trust

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 16 2008

In February 2008, a jury hearing the evidence about the death of a mother who died three hours after giving birth to her son ruled that she was unlawfully killed

BMA wins case over GPs’ pensions

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 16 2008

Following Judicial Review of the Government’s actions, a High Court judge has decided that the Government acted unlawfully when the Secretary of State for Health retrospectively introduced a limit on the amount that retiring GPs could receive in their NHS pensions for the years 2004-2006

Nurse with latex allergy awarded six-figure compensation

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 16 2008

Tanya Dodd, a former trainee nurse, has agreed a six-figure settlement from her former NHS employers after she developed a latex allergy from wearing latex gloves at work

Periodic payments

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 17 2008

Indexation for future care costs should now be on the basis of the ASHE 6115 and the opportunities for defendants to resist such an order in the future will be limited

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