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For defenders. Failure to diagnose cancer by orthopaedic surgeon following fracture to tibia and fibula leading to high above knee amputation. Case settled extra-judicially.
CD v Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals Trust [2015] CSOH
For pursuer. A birth injuries case against midwives involving shoulder dystocia where the child was born with a severe brachial plexus injury and permanent disability.
AW v Greater Glasgow Health Board [2015] CSOH 99 , AW v Greater Glasgow Health Board [2017] CSIH 58
For pursuer. Multimillion pound cerebral palsy case arising from birth injuries. Complex causation issues and longest-running clinical negligence proof in Scotland. Further Opinion issued after hearing in the Inner House in October 2016.
Case name withheld
For pursuer. Clinical negligence case regarding failure by Consultant Surgeon to diagnose bowel obstruction in 27-year-old woman leading to bowel problems, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. Case settled extra-judicially.
Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of John Johnson 2009
For Fife Health Board. A case involving complications of PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) tube insertion including perforation of the colon and an infection from a TPN feeding line. Formal findings only.
D’s Parent and Guardian v Greater Glasgow Health Board 2011 SLT 1137
For defenders. First Scottish case which settled with a periodic payment order approved by the Court. Structured settlement. Obstetric negligence claim arising from failed McClellan’s forceps rotation leading to spinal injury at birth.
Case name withheld
For defender. A fatal case concerning a failure by a Consultant Cardiologist to diagnose myocardial ischaemia and myocardial infraction. Case settled extra-judicially.
Case name withheld
For pursuers. A multi-party fatal case concerning the failure to diagnose DVT by a Consultant Physician. Case settled extra-judicially.
Case name withheld
For pursuers. A multi-party fatal case concerning failure to investigate a bowel obstruction by a General Physician in a patient suffering from multiple sclerosis. Case settled extra-judicially.
Fiona Brown v East Lothian Council 2013 SLT 721
For the pursuer, a debate on the applicability of the Workplace Regulations to a self-employed person hiring the premises and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.
Case name withheld
For defender. Road traffic accident resulting in catastrophic injuries including a severe traumatic brain injury, spastic quadriplegia and psychiatric injury. Multiple heads of claim and defences of life expectancy and contributory negligence that the pursuer ought to have seen the car driven by the defender as it approached and failed to cross the carriageway quickly. Case settled extra-judicially with a multimillion pound settlement.
Case name withheld
For pursuer. Road traffic accident resulting in multiple injuries including severe traumatic brain injury to a child aged 15. The defender was her brother, the driver of the vehicle who was in loco parentis at the time of the accident. Contributory negligence for failure to wear a seatbelt. Multiple heads of claim. Case settled extra-judicially with a multimillion pound settlement.
Case name withheld
Road traffic case with two fatalities. For 2nd pursuer, as father and guardian of his daughter, aged 10 injured in a road traffic accident in which her mother and grandmother died and sister (1st pursuer) was injured. Her mother’s partner was the driver and the defender. Multiple injuries. Case settled extra-judicially.
Halkett v South Ayrshire Council, 2008 GWD 21-35
For pursuer. A case involving an acceleration and exacerbation of a tennis elbow condition arising from a council road worker. Manual Handling Operations 1992. Liability and quantum. Damages awarded to the pursuer.
McFarlane v Thain, [2005] CSOH 22
For second defender. A case relating to a road traffic accident in which another driver was unlicensed and uninsured. Conducted procedure roll.
Shaw v Russell, 10 May 2004, Rep LR 99
For pursuer. Jury trial relating to a road traffic accident in which a motorcycle pillion passenger suffered multiple injuries including amputation of an arm. Highest jury award of solatium as at 2004.
