Medical Law Reports

Negligence – Duty of care – Public authority liability – Liability of rescuers – Police – Duty of care to not make matters worse – Assumption of responsibility – Control of source of danger – Road traffic accident – Strike-out application.

Anonymity orders – Jurisdiction to make orders withholding the name of a party – Jurisdiction to make reporting restriction orders – Whether such orders should be made after proceedings have commenced – Whether they should be made when the claim has already been the subject of previous publicity – Whether the basis and approach to such orders in clinical negligence cases should be re-examined.

Clinical negligence – Admission of liability – Agreed judgment order – Whether defence case as pleaded consistent with judgment order.