Court of Appeal affirms clinic’s liability for medical partner’s mistake

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Court of Appeal affirms clinic’s liability for medical partner’s mistake

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The Court of Appeal has upheld High Court and HDC findings on the vicarious liability of a medical centre over a mistake made by one of its medical partners
“They are independent clinicians responsible for their own clinical decisions and their own clinical competence and conduct” A medical centre’s