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Bell v The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWCA Civ 1363

Written by Emma Sutton for for Medical Law Reports on 10 December 2021.

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Roberts v Johnstone is dead

John de Bono QC discusses the Lord Chancellor’s announcement that the discount rate would be revised from 2.5% to -0.75%. This clearly has major implications for the calculation of future losses and will lead to much higher awards and settlements than we have seen before.

Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board: transforming informed consent

Adrian Hopkins QC co-writes an article in the Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons concerning the landmark decision of the Supreme Court in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board. The article was co-written by Angela Coulter, senior research scientist at the University of Oxford and Ben Moulton, senior vice-president of the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, Boston, MA, US.