Clinical Judgments by Key issue: Chronic Pain

Brint v Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 290 (QB)

Date

9th February 2021

Court

High Court

Key Issues

Findings of Fact, Fundamental Dishonesty, Liability, Psychiatric Injury, Chronic Pain

Judge

HHJ Platts

The case of Brint, which largely turns on the evidence, demonstrates that Claimants who are “wholly unreliable” are not necessarily fundamentally dishonest. Introduction The Claimant’s claim arises following an extravasation injury following a CT scan with contrast carried out at the Defendant’s King George Hospital. The claim is for negligent treatment, alleging that proceeding without the […]