Court to hear clinical negligence case after remote trial is deemed “undesirable”

The first clinical negligence trial to go to the High Court since the covid-19 lockdown closed the courts in the UK will start on 8 June.

The trial had been due to take place by video conferencing, but University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust applied for it to be adjourned to a later date, arguing that a remote hearing would be unfair.

One of the clinicians whose treatment is at issue in the negligence claim maintained that he would be unable to give as full an account of his actions by video link as at a court hearing, …