Tag: medical negligence

Negligence as a tort is the breach of a duty caused by omission to do something which a reasonable man would do or doing something which a prudent and reasonable…

This article is part of our Medical Negligence Series. The criminal law has invariably placed the medical professionals on a pedestal different from ordinary mortals. The Indian Penal Code enacted…

This article is part of our Medical Negligence Series. Negligence as a tort Definition of Negligence The jurisprudential concept of negligence defies any precise definition. Eminent jurists and leading judgments…

This article is part of our Medical Negligence Series. The case of ‘Jacob Matthew v. state of Punjab (2005)’, is a landmark case in the field of medical negligence where…

This article is part of our Medical Negligence Series. Learned authors of “Errors, Medicine and the Law” (pp. 241-248), (recorded at the end of the book in the chapter titled…

This article is a part of our Medical Negligence Series. The case reached to the supreme court by way of Special leave petition against the order of Nation cconsumer Disputes…

This article is a part of our Medical Negligence Series. The influence exhorted by a doctor is unique. The relationship between the doctor and the patient is not always equally…

This article is the part of our Medical Negligence Series The case of ‘Laxman Balkrishna Joshi vs Trimbak Bapu Godbole[1], is an important case in medical negligence. In this case,…

Connected with this question was other the question whether the service rendered at a hospital/nursing home can be regarded as ‘service’ under Section 2(1)(o) of the Act. Here it is…

The word `profession' used to be confined to the three learned professions, the Church, Medicine and Law. It has now, I think, a wider meaning.