The court gave guidance on the procedures to be adopted to avoid difficulties arising from factual differences between medical experts.
Buxton LJ discussed the status of quotations recorded by the doctor examining a claimant, saying: ‘What the doctor writes down as having been told him by the patient, as opposed to the opinion that he expresses on the basis of those statements, is not at that stage evidence of the making of the statement that he records.’
Judges:
Lord Justice Jonathan Parker, Lord Justice Buxton, Lord Justice Wall
Citations:
Times 22-Mar-2006, [2006] EWCA Civ 169
Links:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Charnock and Others v Rowan and Others CA 20-Jan-2012
14 passengers in a bus hit from behind at a slow speed had all claimed whiplash injury. The expert had said that the accepted speed required to produce such an injury was a change of 3mph, which would require an impact at 30mph, whereas the evidence . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Personal Injury, Health and Safety
Updated: 05 July 2022; Ref: scu.238897