Cecily Cameron, Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel

Broschiertes Buch

Clinical Negligence

A Practitioner's Handbook

Beschreibung

This new text is a comprehensive guide to investigating and litigating clinical negligence claims. Aimed particularly at practitioners who are looking to develop their practice in this complex and often emotive area, the book provides a general overview of the law relating to clinical negligence, and focuses on the practical aspects of running a claim, including risk analysis, costs, the investigation process, the pre-action protocol, issuing proceedings, specificcomplex and difficult issues, damages, and trial. The book is written in a clear and user-friendly style, and maintains a practical focus throughout on issues such as client care, maintaining effective relationships between solicitors and counsel, selecting and managing experts, case management, andprocedure.

Autor

Cecily Cameron is a Solicitor, and heads the Clinical Negligence team in the Personal Injury department of Henmans. She handles a substantial number of cerebral palsy and other serious birth injury claims, as well as several high-value fatal cases. She has a particular interest in gynaecological and neurosurgical claims. Cecily joined Henmans in October 2000, from Irwin Mitchell, Leeds. Before training as a lawyer, she worked for 8 years as Head of Information & Education Services for Wakefield Health Authority. This experience has given her an invaluable insight into the workings of the NHS and the clinical content of her work. She is a Member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel, APIL, and the Oxford Medico-Legal Society. Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel QC is a Barrister at One Crown Office Row. She specialises in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury (including head and catastrophic injury claims), claims involving child abuse, and Multi-Party Actions. She is a member of the Professional Negligence Bar Association, the Personal Injury Bar Association, and the Family Bar Association. She has written widely on the law of clinical negligence, and is a member of the editorial committee of Clinical Risk.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 743g
• ISBN-13: 9780199299645
• ISBN-10: 0199299641
• Artikelnr.: 22744707