For the first time outside a medical context, the High Court declined to apply the traditional Bolam v Friern Barnet Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582 test for the standard of care in ...
JD Supra: Abandoning Bolam: a new standard for advising on investment risk
Does the Chief Medical Officer’s report into clinical negligence in the NHS signal the end of the Bolam test? Nicholas Wilkes discusses the merits of the old method as against new plans On 30 June ...
Dr Jock Mackenzie considers recent clinical negligence cases which raise the question of when the Bolam, Montgomery, and Penney tests should apply In EXP v Charles Simon Barker [2017] EWCA Civ 63, the ...