Combining know-how about the conduct of clinical negligence claims with the latest thinking on new and developing areas of practice, APIL Clinical Negligence offers focused coverage on areas of clinical negligence that really matter.

The result is a highly practical work offering detailed guidance and expert legal analysis. APIL Clinical Negligence will be essential reading for all clinical negligence lawyers and other professionals involved in the conduct of such claims.

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General Editor:
Paul Balen, Partner, Freeth Cartwright LLP

Contributors:
Jalil Asif
Paul Balen
David Body
Margaret Bowron QC
Dr Tom Boyd
Simon Cridland
Claire Fazan
Jennifer Foster
Philip Havers QC
Adrian Hopkins QC
Jeremy Hyam
Andrew Lindsay
John McQuater
David Marshall
Tim Meakin
Michael Mylonas
Fiona Neale
Jon Nicholson
Robin Oppenheim QC
Tom Osbourne
Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp
Sarah Simcock

• Coping with Trauma
• Medical Records
• NHS Complaints Procedure and Redress
• The Funding of Clinical Negligence Claims
• The Inquest
• Medical Treatment and Human Rights
• The Duty of Care, Standard of Care and Establishing Breach of Duty
• Causation
• Limitation
• Claims Involving Medical Products
• The Clinical Negligence Pre-Action Protocol
• Case Management Directions
• Experts
  • Experts: Legal Issues
  • Instructing an Expert: A Medic's Perspective
• Offers to Settle
• Mediation and ADR
• Rehabilitation
• Entitlement to Damages
• Preparing a Schedule of Loss
• Current Issues in the Assessment of Damages 

Appendices

• Medical Glossary
• Sample Clinical Notes
• Suggested Model Directions for Clinical Negligence Cases before Master Ungley and Master Yoxall Version 4(June 2007)
• Useful Organisations