Damages

06 October 2017

Issue: 7764 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court

XX v Whittington Hospital NHS Trust [2017] EWHC 2318 (QB) [2017] All ER (D) 80 (Sep)

A total sum of £580,618.52 was awarded to the claimant after the defendant NHS trust’s admitted negligence in failing to detect signs of cancer from a number of smear tests and biopsies. The Queen’s Bench Division also awarded the cost of two surrogacy procedures in the United Kingdom.

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Damages

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Kingsley Napley—Claire Green

Weightmans—Emma Eccles & Mark Woodall

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope