Articles & Updates
A Missed Opportunity: Are Delays in Diagnosing Lung Cancer a National Trend?
Date: 15 May 2012
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Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury; Serious Injury; Serious/Catastrophic Injury; Inquiries and Investigations; London
In light of the recent NHS initiative to increase awareness of lung cancer symptoms, Stephen Jones, Partner and Head of the Medical Negligence team at Pannone Solicitors, considers the worrying ...
Protecting the Vulnerable
Date: 10 April 2012
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Service: Medical Negligence; Family; ; Personal Injury; Serious Injury; Inquiries and Investigations
Gill Edwards considers why Rabone is a landmark human rights decision. In Brief • Rabone extends the obligations placed on the state to protect vulnerable non-detained psychiatric patients.• Parents ...
Medical negligence: Should patients be told when something goes wrong?
Date: 21 February 2012
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Service: Medical Negligence
Chris Gawne and Ben Spivey consider the need for a duty of openness in the NHS. Recently the government indicated that medical negligence claims are expected to cost the taxpayer £15.7 ...
Parents win landmark human rights claim at the Supreme Court
Date: 08 February 2012
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Service: Medical Negligence; Human Rights
Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust Pannone acted for the parents of a young woman who took her own life after being allowed home leave from a psychiatric unit. The ...
The level of weekend death rates in NHS Hospitals is a big issue
Date: 30 January 2012
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Service: Medical Negligence
It is stressful enough when a loved one becomes so ill that they need to be admitted to hospital. It comes to something when instead of feeling relieved that they ...
A client for life – our assistance does not end when the case finishes
Date: 09 May 2011
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
As well as advising our clients on legal issues, we like to ensure clients build a better future for themselves in the long term after the case has settled. ...
Court of Protection explained
Date: 09 May 2011
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Clients often ask us what the Court of Protection is about, and how it works. Emma Holt, Head of our Medical Negligence team, provides some answers. When someone is ...
Fears about patient safety with abolition of ‘arms length’ quango
Date: August 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
The culling of the public body responsible for ensuring the safety of patients in our hospitals should be of grave concern to us all. The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) ...
Hippotherapy
Date: August 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Recreation opportunities for people with severe disabilities such as cerebral palsy are often very limited and restricted to activities which take place indoors. In this article, Emma Holt looks at ...
‘Hot tubbing’ for expert witnesses?
Date: August 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
'Hot tubbing' is legal slang for concurrent expert evidence. Currently in England and Wales, experts giving evidence in court do so sequentially. In other words, an expert is examined and ...
Psychological therapies for victims of traumatic brain injury – and how medical evidence plays a crucial role
Date: August 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
In this article Richard Scorer, Head of Pannone's Personal Injury team, looks at psychological therapies for victims of traumatic brain injury and explores some of the issues to be ...
Developmental dysplasia of the hips
Date: August 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Developmental dysplasia of the hips (DDH) can be difficult to detect and we occasionally see cases where a child's condition is more severe because of a delay in diagnosis. ...
Hydrotherapy
Date: August 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Hydrotherapy is the use of warm, deep water in a quiet environment for the therapeutic effect of: alleviating the discomfort of physical impairment maintaining a range of movement It is ...
What is Cerebral palsy? And how claims arise
Date: January 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Doctors use the term cerebral palsy to describe a set of neurological conditions that affect a person's movement and co-ordination, but which can cover a whole range of conditions ...
Specialist advice – now more important than ever with budgets being tight
Date: January 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
I joined Pannone last month as a Partner and the new Head of our Disability Rights and Community Care law team. In this article I look at some of ...
What is ‘public law’?
Date: January 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Richard Scorer, Head of Personal Injury at Pannone, tells all ... Public law is a growing area of legal work. It relates to the powers and duties of public bodies, ...
Disability rights and community care
Date: January 2010
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
In this first edition of our Serious Injury Newsletter for 2010 we focus on disability rights and community care law. These areas of law are concerned with ensuring that disabled ...
Damages claim shows importance of health & safety rules
Date: November 2009
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Carol Jackson, Partner in Pannone's Personal Injury department, looks at a case where basic health and safety rules were overlooked resulting in a young girl sustaining a permanent disability....
Are emergency vehicle drivers above the law?
Date: November 2009
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Catherine Leech, Partner in our Personal Injury department, highlights the growing problem of collisions involving emergency vehicles travelling at high speed.A case before the Court of Appeal earlier this ...
Fatal accident claims
Date: November 2009
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Claims for damages after the loss of a loved one are emotional and distressing. No amount of money can compensate you for such a loss. Deirdre Healy, Partner in our ...
Wrongly accused – a 10 year fight for justice
Date: September 2009
Publication: Clinical Negligence
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
In September 2008, after a 10 year fight which she took all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, Emma Holt, Head of Pannone's Clinical Negligence department, finally got ...
Inquests and raising awareness
Date: September 2009
Publication: Clinical Negligence
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Earlier this year, Gill Edwards, Partner in Pannone's Clinical Negligence department, reported on an inquest which revealed problems in staffing levels at Tameside General Hospital but also raised a ...
A preventable death
Date: September 2009
Publication: Clinical Negligence
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Laura Morgan, Partner in the Clinical Negligence department, represented the family of Kathleen Doherty Deceased at the Inquest touching upon her death with Counsel Alastair Forrest. The family have ...
Monitoring equipment turned off results in client’s death
Date: September 2009
Publication: Clinical Negligence
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Helen Budge, Associate Solicitor in our Clinical Negligence department, comments on the recent Inquest held into the death of a 60-year-old grandfather who died after the volume on a hospital ...
Empowering disabled people - disabled access & discrimination
Date: July 2009
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Since the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, subsequently amended by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, the definition of disability has evolved from the traditional medical model to that of the ...
Unacceptable treatment
Date: July 2009
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Kris Inskip, Partner in our Clincial Negligence department, obtained substantial damages for a London man who suffered total left-sided blindness, balance difficulties and a lack of sense of taste and ...
Sensory loss after a head injury
Date: July 2009
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Richard Scorer, Head of our Personal Injury department, looks at sensory loss implications after a head injury.The brain can be affected in multiple ways by traumatic injuries. During an ...
Visual loss & its complications
Date: July 2009
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Emma Holt, Head of our Clinical Negligence department, considers some of the circumstances where visual complications can be caused by medical error.Medical treatment is usually very good and thankfully ...
Emma Holt
Date: December 2008
Publication: Clinical Negligence
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On 1st May 2008 Emma Holt took over from John Kitchingman as Head of the Clinical Negligence department at Pannone.Emma, a graduate of Manchester University, was a law lecturer before ...
John Kitchingman
Date: December 2008
Publication: Clinical Negligence
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
John Kitchingman was Head of the Clinical Negligence department at Pannone LLP from the mid 1980s until May this year. Whilst John continues in his work as a clinical negligence ...
Supporting Charities
Date: December 2008
Publication: Clinical Negligence
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Julianne MacLennan discusses a few of the charities that the Clinical Negligence department actively support.On a daily basis we are involved with clients and their families who have been ...
Living life to the full
Date: November 2008
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
In a previous edition of this newsletter, we reported on the walk in a country park that led to tragedy for 27 year old Louise Carhart from Middleton, Manchester, when, through ...
Holiday insurance battle
Date: November 2008
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Catherine Leech, Partner in our Personal Injury department, comments on a particular case that involved difficulty in receiving payout from a holiday insurance policy and highlights the need for those ...
Motorcycle accident: Barber v Brown and M.I.B.
Date: November 2008
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Catherine Leech looks at the case of Graham Barber and his motorcycle accident.At around 6pm on the 29th April 2003 Graham Barber, 42, was driving his motorcycle home from work along ...
The future costs of care
Date: November 2008
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence; Personal Injury
Richard Scorer, Partner and Head of our Personal Injury department, discusses the future costs of care."Thousands of people in England will receive more help towards their care costs&...
Spinal injuries – what happens when things go wrong with treatment?
Date:
Publication: Serious Injury Team
Service: Medical Negligence
Gill Edwards, Partner in our Clinical Negligence department, details the many ways the spinal cord can become compressed and looks specifically at a case involving negligent treatment of cauda equina ...