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Default judgment damages were assessed for two claimants after severe domestic abuse, harassment and attempted abduction. The court awarded substantial personal injury damages and future losses.
Atuanya v Ministry of Defence [2026] EWHC 758 (KB) (30 March 2026)
The High Court held that the claimant’s discontinued NFCI claim was fundamentally dishonest because he exaggerated symptoms and limitations, losing QOCS protection.
Lynch v Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust [2026] EWHC 657 (KB) (20 March 2026)
Clinical negligence damages judgment for delayed diagnosis of hip dysplasia, assessing future care, accommodation, earnings, psychiatric injury, and provisional damages.
High Court damages assessment in an admitted clinical negligence claim over delayed diagnosis of hip dysplasia, with future care and revision surgery issues.
The High Court struck out a secondary victim psychiatric injury claim arising from witnessing negligently managed labour and birth, holding the events were a medical crisis, not an accident.
MIM v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2026] EWHC 562 (KB) (17 March 2026)
The High Court struck out a secondary victim psychiatric injury claim arising from allegedly negligent labour management, holding the pleaded events were a medical crisis, not an accident.
Foxton-Duffy v Jockey Club Racecourses Ltd [2026] EWHC 571 (KB) (13 March 2026)
The High Court found the employer liable for psychiatric injury caused by unmanageable workload and stress after a workplace restructure, and awarded damages.
The GMC does not owe a common law duty of care to doctors under investigation regarding timing, manner, or content of notification, as such a duty would be inconsistent with its statutory obligations to protect the public and conduct investigations. The operational duty under Article 2 ECHR does not arise in the context of regulatory investigations, as the circumstances do not amount to 'well-defined circumstances' and the GMC did not have actual or constructive knowledge of a real and immediate risk to life. Both claims are bound to fail and are struck out or summarily dismissed.
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The EAT dismissed Kuwait’s appeal on state immunity. It held that prior EAT rulings on section 5 of the State Immunity Act 1978 should be followed, and that psychiatric injury is included.
The High Court allowed an appeal in part and entered summary judgment on a narrow causation issue arising from delayed transfer in a maternity emergency.
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