by Julian Johnson | Oct 29, 2021
A nice compliment with Doyles Guide yesterday publishing its annual survey results for medical negligence lawyers. Doyles’ rates lawyers and law firms based on feedback/polling of lawyers on the defendant side of medical claims. Once again, Doyles Guide ranking...
by Julian Johnson | Aug 24, 2021
my video blog article about the need for surgeon’s to provide advice about their results (both good and bad), if there is significant variation. My point is not that surgeons who are not plastic surgeons should not perform breast surgery. It may well be that...
by Julian Johnson | Oct 15, 2019
WA’s Court of Appeal has now handed down its decision in the case brought on behalf of Sunday Mabior, the young 16-month-old child who suffered burns and then medical care at Princess Margaret Hospital, almost 14 years ago, in December 2005. Sunday’s claim...
by Julian Johnson | Jun 4, 2018
I noticed with interest and some concern, recent media attention (see for example and a Herald Sun story in mid-May) concerning the number of Australians travelling to Asia to undergo cosmetic surgery. According to a recent report, this may be 15,000 patients a year....
by Julian Johnson | Mar 16, 2017
I today presented a paper at conference providing a review of 10 recent Australian medical law cases since January 2016, which I found interesting. Cases reviewed were: Coote, Bigg, Morocz, Westcott, Martin, Pierce, Sorbello, McManus and Stefanyszyn and Wright....
by Julian Johnson | Jul 6, 2016
It is no doubt my age.. but I have an acute sense of deja vu! As from 1 July 2016, we have ‘reverted’ to the old scheme of Boards of Management running our major hospitals (and geographic areas). See the Health Services Act 2016 + the 30 June 16...
by Julian Johnson | Mar 13, 2016
I read with interest the article in last weekend’s Sydney Morning Herald concerning Ian Harris’s recent book. In the interests of full disclosure, Ian is an orthopaedic surgeon from whom we commonly seek advice, as an independent expert to review and comment on...
by Julian Johnson | Feb 7, 2016
Coincidentally, in month or so before Christmas I have handled pre-trial settlement negotiations in relation to 2 similar cases, in the sense they both involved negligence allegations which it was claimed had led to the death of my clients’ life partners (in old...
by Julian Johnson | Jan 6, 2016
My impression is that there has been an increase in recent times of cases presented before our District Court in which claimants have represented themselves, without a lawyer. A sobering example of the dangers of this course, is the New South Wales Supreme...
by Julian Johnson | Jun 17, 2015
I read with interest the recent article in The Guardian provided an update as to the ever escalating rate of cesarean section births in Australia. The article makes all of the well-known [predictable?] arguments in favor of natural delivery. It is true, the divergence...
by Julian Johnson | Apr 10, 2015
Western Australia’s Court of Appeal in its decision AME Hospitals PTY, Limited v. Dixon [2015] WASCA 63, delivered on 27 March 2015, confirmed, particularly relevantly in the medical negligence claims area, significant scope for persons to bring claim outside...
by Julian Johnson | Apr 6, 2015
The UK has recently altered its position in relation to the important question of a doctor’s obligations to warn their patients concerning risks of treatment. Preceding the decision in Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, delivered on 11 March...
