Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Polmear v Royal Cornwall NHS; and Purchase v Dr Ahmed [2024] UKSC 1
In a landmark judgment, the UK Supreme Court has dismissed the Claimants’ conjoined appeals against the strike out of their secondary victim claims for psychiatric injury from witnessing the death of close relatives from the Defendants’ alleged (or admitted) clinical negligence.
Join Charles Bagot KC and Vanessa McKinlay at midday on Thursday (18th January) as they discuss the Supreme Court ruling and the implications of the judgment.
Please register your attendance via email at events@gatehouselaw.co.uk.
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Charles Bagot KC represented all three Defendants in the Court of Appeal in Paul, leading Charlotte Jones; and they both appeared with Simeon Maskrey KC for all three Defendants in the Supreme Court, instructed by Joanna Lloyd, and Alison Garrett, of Bevan Brittan LLP for the Defendant/ Respondent in Polmear; and by Jonathan Fuggle and Hannah Wallace of Browne Jacobson LLP for the Defendants/Respondents in Paul and Purchase.
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