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16/02/2026
We are pleased to share Issue 7 of the TGC Clinical Negligence Newsletter—an expansive, 65‑page briefing packed with recent developments, expert insights, and practical analysis in clinical negligence law.
Inside you’ll find:
Breach of Duty & Causation
The Importance of Distinguishing Diagnosis from Treatment in the Context of Consent to Treatment in Enaholo v Totally PLC & Anor [2024] EWHC 3249 (KB) – Anthony Johnson
The Importance of Medical Investigations and Medico-legal Impartiality in Hodgson v Hammond and another [2025] EWHC 1261 (KB) – Lionel Stride
Delayed Prioritisation and Systemic Gaps from Way v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust [2025] EWHC 1078 (KB) – Philip Matthews
The Difficulties of Dethroning Exacting Causation Thresholds even where Substandard Care Precedes Tragic Patient Suicide in Zgonec-Rozej v Pereira [2025] EWCA Civ 171 – Michael Brooks Reid
Tuffin v University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust [2024] EWHC 3318 (KB): Causation, Coincidence and Material Contribution – James Yapp
HQA v Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2025] EWHC 2121 (KB): When Known Risks Eventuate: Consent and Risk Mitigation – Matthew Brunning
Scope of Duty and the Difference Between Needing Something “On Discharge” versus “Very Soon” in a Case of Alleged Negligence by Paediatric Clinicians: Conway v Yeovil District Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anor [2025] EWHC 2488 (KB) – Andrew Ratomski
Civil Procedure/Case Management Decisions
Late Hearsay Notices and Witnesses with Intermittent Seizures in Richards v Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust [2024] EWHC 3384 (KB) – Polina Sokolovska (paralegal to James Arney KC)
Going for the Triad: A Defendant’s Summary Judgment, Strike-Out and Wasted Costs Application: Butler v Ward [2025] EWHC 877 (KB) – Lindsay McNeil (paralegal to Lionel Stride)
Change of Experts Illustrates that the Court’s Broad Discretion in Case Management Matters is Far from Limitless from Prescott-Brann v Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 3314 (KB) – Anthony Johnson
Applications for Strike Out and/or Summary Judgment on Account of an Alleged Inadequately Pleaded Amended Defence Dismissed from Prudence v Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2025] EWHC 1209 (KB) – Anthony Johnson
Surveillance Evidence under the Microscope: Perrin v Walsh [2025] EWHC 2536 (KB) – Marcus Grant
Informed Consent
Informed Consent and the Danger of Hindsight from Tosh v Gupta [2025] EWHC 2025 (KB) – Helen Nugent
Statements of Case and Evidence
Guidance on Witness Evidence: Deakin-Stephenson v Behar & Anor [2024] EWHC 2338 (KB) – Michael Brooks Reid
Medical Records and the Contents of Pleadings Weigh More than the Memory of Witnesses and Late-stage Arguments in MJF (a Protected Party proceeding by her mother and litigation friend, ITZ) v University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust [2024] EWHC 3156 (KB) – Rochelle Powell
Clarification on the Provisions of the CPR Concerning Strike Outs and Qualified One-way Costs Shifting (QOCS) in Read v North Middlesex Hospital Trust [2025] EWHC 1603 (KB) – Lindsay McNeil (paralegal to Lionel Stride)
Fundamental Dishonesty
Scrutinise Claimants’ Evidence Raised in Rebuttal to Fundamental Dishonesty or Face the Costs: Cullen v Henniker-Major [2024] EWHC 2809 (KB) – Marcus Grant
The Costs of Pleading Fundamental Dishonesty even where the Claimant’s Claim is Dismissed in Hakmi v East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust [2025] EWHC 2597 (KB) – Lionel Stride
The Consumer Credit Act 1974
Credit Card Companies Beware – the Application of s 75 the Consumer Credit Act 1974 to Negligent Clinical Services: Bailey v (1) Bijlani (2) MBNA Ltd [2025] EWHC 175 (KB) – Lindsay McNeil (paralegal to Lionel Stride)
Interim Payments
Interim Payments: A recent Application of Eeles 1 in Hill v East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust [2025] EWHC 1241 (KB) and a further recent example. from Hill v East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust [2025] EWHC 1241 (KB) – James Arney KC
‘A Reasonable Proportion of a Conservative Sum’ yields a Claimant-friendly Interim Payment from CWLX (a child proceeding by his father and Litigation Friend, SWSX) v Aneurin Bevan University Health Board [2025] EWHC 1531 (KB) – Michael Rapp
Anonymity Orders
Is it Fatal to an Anonymity Application if the Applicant’s Name is Already in the Public Domain?: PMC v Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board [2025] EWCA Civ 1126 – Richard Boyle
