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News 19/01/2021
Kennedys hires international products law specialist to London office
Kennedys has appointed partner Sarah-Jane Dobson to its growing international products law practice. Sarah-Jane, who joins from Cooley LLP and will be based in Kennedy’s London office, specialises in litigation and regulatory matters relating to product safety, product compliance and product liability.
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News 27/11/2020
Kennedys celebrates 20 years in Hong Kong with office move
Kennedys is celebrating 20 years in Hong Kong, and is also moving to new offices.
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Article 13/07/2020
Court of Appeal reinforces high threshold for engagement of Article 2 in medical cases
It is well established that Article 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 is engaged at inquest if the deceased was under the control of the state, for example whilst imprisoned or detained under the Mental Health Act 2005.
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News 01/05/2020
Kennedys celebrates office anniversary by launching Sheffield healthcare practice with new partner hire
We are pleased to announce that we have hired healthcare partner, Tom Armstrong, to head up a new healthcare team based in our Sheffield office, which opened in 2010. Tom, who joins from Browne Jacobson, will lead a team in Sheffield able to defend clinical negligence claims against GPs, NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers. Tom will be working closely with our healthcare lawyers in Birmingham, Cambridge and London.
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Case review 04/06/2019
Coroner’s inquest – civil standard of proof for suicide conclusion
Last year the High Court boldly concluded that the standard of proof required for a conclusion of suicide (whether recorded in short-form or as a narrative statement) at an inquest is the civil standard of “on the balance of probabilities” and not the criminal standard of “beyond reasonable doubt”.
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News 16/05/2019
NHS “needs to prepare” for new deprivation of liberty rules, highlights Kennedys
We have highlighted that NHS trusts, private hospitals and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) need to prepare for new responsibilities under the regime governing the deprivation of liberty of those without the mental capacity to consent to it.
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Article 30/11/2017
Women in insurance event round up
On 14 November, Kennedys were thrilled to host two inspirational female leaders from the London market.
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Article 08/08/2017
Collision course: inquests and road traffic deaths investigated
Government figures show that there were 1810 deaths on the roads in Great Britain in the year ending September 2016.
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Article 23/11/2016
Healthcare Brief November 2016
Welcome to the latest edition of Healthcare Brief.