Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11

Case name:  Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 What is the case about? This was the case in which the Supreme Court reacted to the “changing paradigm of the doctor-patient relationship”. Montgomery was not only one of the seminal cases in the law of clinical negligence in thirty years, it also recognised the importance of patient … Continue reading  Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11

MP (SRI LANKA) v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2016)

The appellant Sri Lankan national appealed against a refusal ([2014] EWCA Civ 829) of his application for asylum. The respondent secretary of state had accepted that the appellant had been a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and that he had been detained and tortured by the Sri Lankan security forces. However, she … Continue reading MP (SRI LANKA) v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2016)