Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which a doctor appealed against a decision of a fitness to practise panel that his name be erased from the medical register.
Ed Madden
Woman sued hospital over fall
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case in which a woman sued the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin after she fell on a pathway when arriving to collect her mother from the Clinic.
Remark led to complaint to Equality Tribunal
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Equality Tribunal case in which a transsexual woman who had undergone reassignment surgery claimed that she was discriminated against by a hospital when a consultant referred to her by the wrong gender during the course of a consultation
Man with learning difficulties was resistant to having surgery
Ed Madden, BL on a recent UK case in which the Court had to decide whether a patient with learning difficulties resistant to having an operation for breast cancer should undergo the surgery.
Case raised issues of great public importance
Ed Madden, BL, looks at the recent High Court case in which the Court was called upon to decide whether it should authorise the withdrawal of somatic support to a woman who was 15 weeks’ pregnant at the time of her death.
Did double life lead to psychiatric distress?
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which a former undercover police officer alleged that he suffered a psychiatric injury as a result of the failure of his employer to provide him with appropriate support during his period under cover.
Dentists’ body challenged fee increase
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which the British Dental Association challenged a decision of the regulatory body for dentists to increase the annual retention fee for 2015.
Doctor saw patients while on sick leave
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK Court of Appeal case in which a consultant haematologist, dismissed by her employer for continuing to see private patients while on sick leave, appealed an Employment Appeal Tribunal decision concerning her dismissal.
Man was in a vegetative state
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK Court of Protection decision in which a local health provider applied for a declaration that it was in a patient’s best interests that artificial nutrition and hydration be withdrawn from him.
Case on entry to the specialist register
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK Court of Appeal case in which the GMC appealed against a lower court decision requiring a Registration Appeal Panel to reconsider an application from a consultant surgeon to be registered as a specialist in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery.