Not sure this is the last nail in the coffin of HRA damages claims piggy-backing on care proceedings, but the bag of nails certainly isn’t full any more.
Be grateful it is nails. As the LA is Kirklees, I’ve been trying to think of a Shatner reference…
The High Court have given judgment in Re CZ (Human Rights Claim:Costs) 2017
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2017/11.html
The fact that there was a breach is impossible to deny and the LA accepted it. (Even looking at the recent steer from the Hackney authority that failure to follow guidance does not amount without more to an actionable claim, this one goes far beyond that)
12.CZ was born by emergency caesarean section at X Hospital on 6 November. It was a traumatic birth and CZ was for a short time placed on the Special Care Baby Unit (‘SCBU’). The baby was slow to feed, and showed temporary normal…
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