Monthly Archives: December 2021

Clinical Negligence litigation – time for change

13th December 2021

Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has proposed an alternative approach to clinical negligence claims, with a view to securing earlier compensation for affected families and implementing changes within the NHS to ensure mistakes are not repeated. Hunt, who is now the chair of the House of Commons Health and Social Care committee, suggested in a… Read more »

Neutral evaluation in the new civil justice landscape

1st December 2021

Not so long ago if you had asked someone to explain neutral evaluation, you might have drawn a pause and a quizzical look. Today, the market for ADR (or dispute resolution processes (DR) as we are encouraged to call mediation, evaluation, adjudication and the like) has moved from the margins to the mainstream, and at… Read more »