Cases - Simms v Birmingham Health Authority

Record details

Name

Simms v Birmingham Health Authority

Date

(2001); [2001]

Citation

58 BMLR 66; Lloyd's Law Reports (Medical) 382, QBD

Keywords

Expert witness

Summary

In a medical negligence case it was held that the judge had acted prematurely in ordering the parties to appoint a named SJE before they had pleaded their respective cases. Each side should be entitled to have its own expert at this stage. While the time might come later for an SJE appointment, until the issues were before the court, it would be premature to make an order as to what experts should be called or to ascertain what duplication existed between them.