Is materials contribution restricted to divisible accidents? – UK Healthcare Regulation Weblog
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I wrote an article in June final yr on materials contribution after the case of Davies v Frimley Well being NHSFT [2021] EWHC 169 QB . Since then one other first occasion choose has once more expressed obiter remarks on the subject within the case of Thorley v Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Belief [2021] EWHC 2604 QB. Like Davies , the choose in Thorley additionally expressed the view that materials contribution solely applies to divisible (within the sense of dose associated) accidents. This text addresses whether or not that precept is appropriate and considers the main authorities on the purpose – MoD v AB and Others [2010] EWCA Civ 1317 and Williams v Bermuda [2016] UKPC 4. Terminology As a former medic, even after 25 years on the Bar, I'm nonetheless shocked typically at how attorneys can take a basically pretty easy precept and over a few years complicate it in order that it turns into virtually unrecognisable a...
