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What Reviewers Are Saying
AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO MEDICINE AND THE LAW-
OF GREAT ASSISTANCE TO EXPERT WITNESS INSTITUTE MEMBERS
An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers and Reviews Editor, “The Barrister”
This book occupies that often fraught and uncertain territory where law and medicine meet. As the sub-title indicates, it is a legal primer for clinicians. Yet interestingly, it could work the other way around.
Yes, it explains lawyers to clinicians. But it is unarguable that it also does a very good job of explaining clinicians to lawyers. As the publishers point out, it ‘addresses the fundamentals of how the law, lawyers and the legal system affect clinical practice.’
Terse, logical and to the point, the book offers useful guidance to legal practitioners involved with, for example, personal injury or medical negligence claims, for which the NHS has, rather worryingly, allocated a famously large budget.
The author, Giles Eyre, is a barrister himself, also appointed a recorder, who shares the experience gained throughout his career in conducting and advising in personal injury, industrial disease and clinical negligence claims.
By way of introduction, the author offers the insightful comment that ‘all healthcare professionals operate within a legal context. In much the same way that all lawyers live within a medical context and probably with a similar degree of understanding (or misunderstanding) of the relevant principles.’
It is this misunderstanding and yes, ignorance, says James Badenoch QC in the foreword, ‘which this book sets out to dispel’. As a working text, he adds, the book covers such crucial matters as ‘the legal versus the scientific approach to evidence and to proof… negligence and how it is defined… the consequences of medical crime… the principles of patient consent and confidentiality... the duty of candour… whistleblowing… record keeping… and expert witness work.’
But there’s more. The book’s fifteen informative chapters cover such topics as: a lawyer’s mind… the court system… patients in custody… when things go wrong — and much more besides, including a brief look at providing expert evidence for court or other hearings.
As in most, or all good legal texts, the book includes a detailed table of contents and index. There’s a table of contents too, at the beginning of each chapter and a concluding statement at the end — plus for those seeking further information. a wealth of research references.
This is a book says Badenoch, ‘that will be welcomed by lawyers in the field for their own use, but above all it vitally fills a gap for clinicians.’ It is a work that all members of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI) should possess for their professional library.
The publication date of this paperback is cited as at 26th October 2018.
OF GREAT ASSISTANCE TO EXPERT WITNESS INSTITUTE MEMBERS
An appreciation
This book occupies that often fraught and uncertain territory where law and medicine meet. As the sub-title indicates, it is a legal primer for clinicians. Yet interestingl
Yes, it explains lawyers to clinicians. But it is unarguable that it also does a very good job of explaining clinicians to lawyers. As the publishers point out, it ‘addresses the fundamentals
Terse, logical and to the point, the book offers useful guidance to legal practitioner
The author, Giles Eyre, is a barrister himself, also appointed a recorder, who shares the experience gained throughout his career in conducting and advising in personal injury, industrial disease and clinical negligence claims.
By way of introduction
It is this misunderstan
But there’s more. The book’s fifteen informative chapters cover such topics as: a lawyer’s mind… the court system… patients in custody… when things go wrong — and much more besides, including a brief look at providing expert evidence for court or other hearings.
As in most, or all good legal texts, the book includes a detailed table of contents and index. There’s a table of contents too, at the beginning of each chapter and a concluding statement at the end — plus for those seeking further information.
This is a book says Badenoch, ‘that will be welcomed by lawyers in the field for their own use, but above all it vitally fills a gap for clinicians.’ It is a work that all members of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI) should possess for their professional
The publication date of this paperback is cited as at 26th October 2018.