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Hempsons and Eastwoods: our 2020 vision
2020 will be a particularly exciting year for everyone at Hempsons and Eastwoods, as the two firms merge to create a powerful new force in regulatory, disciplinary and healthcare law.
Foreseeability and causation in clinical negligence cases
This article summarises the law on foreseeability and causation in clinical negligence cases. It focuses on what a claimant needs to prove and the development of the law in these areas.
Clinical negligence: duty and breach
This is the first in a two-part series about clinical negligence, in which we will look at the essential components of a claim. In a nutshell, in order for a successful clinical negligence claim to be made, the claimant must show that the defendant healthcare practitioner/provider:
Newsflash: Successful JR quashing GDC guidance limiting its power to review warnings
Hempsons publishes Fitness to Practise guide for dentists following changes to the GDC’s procedures on 1 November
Hempsons, the largest specialist health and social care legal practice in the UK, has published a guide to the General Dental Council’s (GDC) fitness to practise procedures, including an explanation of the changes which came into force on 1 November 2016.