There has been a change in how the court will assess whether a financial advisor has used reasonable care and skill when giving investment advice. Following Supreme Court case law in the medical ...

Does the Chief Medical Officer’s report into clinical negligence in the NHS signal the end of the Bolam test? Nicholas Wilkes discusses the merits of the old method as against new plans On 30 June ...

For the first time outside a medical context, the High Court declined to apply the traditional Bolam v Friern Barnet Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582 test for the standard of care in ...

Nadine Montgomery (a diabetic) had, as shown on ultrasound scans, a large baby in utero. This heightened the risk of shoulder dystocia (the shoulders becoming stuck in the birth canal) during birth by ...