Charles Cooper | Barrister & Mediator

Category: medical

Anaesthetists Utd, R v. GMC [2025] EWHC 2270

While Physician Associates (PAs) and Anaesthesia Associates (AAs) are currently only advised ‘to say that they are not medically qualified if they are engaged in a task or function that a patient might reasonably expect a doctor to perform’, and despite there being ‘ample evidence that patients and the wider public do not know or…
Read more: Anaesthetists Utd, R v. GMC [2025] EWHC 2270
Ferguson, R v. HM Assistant Coroner [2025] EWHC 1901

On judicial review the Coroner’s decisions that (i) the enhanced investigative duty under Article 2 ECHR was not engaged, and (ii) the inquest would be heard without a jury, were quashed where ‘the evidence, primarily in the Chief Constable’s own PSD report, revealed a series of acts or omissions by the officers which could have…
Read more: Ferguson, R v. HM Assistant Coroner [2025] EWHC 1901
Hemachandran v. Thirumalesh (dec’d) [2024] EWCA Civ 896

‘The judge made an error of law in regarding the absence of belief…’ in a diagnosis or prognosis ‘…as determinative of the functional test…’ in s.3(1) MCA 2005, ‘…an error made through no fault of her own given that she was applying the test as set out by Munby J in Re MM [2007] EWHC…
Read more: Hemachandran v. Thirumalesh (dec’d) [2024] EWCA Civ 896