Source: http://lawjournals.co.uk/2017033174815/personal-injury-law-journal/patient-autonomy-montgomery-in-action
Timestamp: 2017-07-28 03:00:03
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Matched Legal Cases: ['UKHL ', 'UKSC ', 'EWCA ', 'UKHL ', 'EWCA ', 'ART 36']

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PATIENT AUTONOMY: Montgomery in action
31 March 2017	7 Bedford Row
Personal Injury Law Journal: April 2017
Julian Matthews looks at recent case law on the issue of consent to medical treatment including the recent Court of Appeal decision of WebsterLegal and medical practitioners alike recognised that the decision of the Supreme Court in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] represented a major change in the approach to be adopted when dealing with the issue of consent to medical treatment. What was not wholly apparent was how the principles set out in Montgomery would be applied in practice. There was a genuine concern that the apparently clear principles would be undermined by first instance courts who might feel that the consequence of applying the principles was in some way ‘unfair’ to medical professionals, and would try and re-introduce some elements of the ‘Bolam’ test in order to restrict liability, particularly in relation to assessing what information ought to be provided to the patient at the time any consent to treatment was taken. The Court of Appeal has now delivered its first decision in a consent case since Montgomery, which gives a real pointer to lower courts and practitioners on the extent to which the Montgomery principles will be observed, and how they should be applied in difficult cases. Please log in to the site to view full content. Access to complete articles is available exclusively to subscribers. For more information on how to subscribe please click here.	Additional Info
Mrs A v East Kent Hospitals [2015] EWHC 1038 (QB) Birch v University College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2008] EWHC 2237 (QB) Chester v Afshar [2004] UKHL 41 Connolly v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 1339 (QB) Crossman v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust [2016] EWHC 2878 FM v Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 775 Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 Pearce v United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust [1998] EWCA Civ 865 Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital [1985] UKHL 1 Spencer v Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 1058 (QB) Tasmin v Barts Health NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 3135 (QB) Webster v Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 62
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Jessica Ross	Jessica is a qualified solicitor advocate higher rights (civil). She has lectured throughout the country for Central Law Training and the Law Society producing two full-day courses for lawyers. She has also written an online risk management training module for Personal Injury Lawyers in association with Zurich Professional. Jessica is…	Website