David Pittaway on liability and health screening negligence. David Pittaway is a barrister at No1 Serjeants’ Inn and acted for the health authorities.
On 16 November 1999, the Court of Appeal (Lord Woolf MR, May and Hale LJJ) gave judgement in the cases of Penney Palmer and Cannon v East Kent Health Authority. They are the only cases on liability to have reached trial after the inquiry conducted by Sir William Wells into the operation of the National […]