{"id":8794,"date":"2022-04-19T21:29:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmel.hku.hk\/events\/the-doctor-duty-of-disclosure-and-the-decline-of-bolam\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:08:13","slug":"the-doctor-duty-of-disclosure-and-the-decline-of-bolam","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/cmel.hku.hk\/zh\/events\/the-doctor-duty-of-disclosure-and-the-decline-of-bolam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctor\u2019s Duty of Disclosure and the Decline of Bolam: A Dramatic Change in the Law on Patient Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<br \/><\/strong>On 11 March 2015, the UK Supreme Court delivered its decision in\u00a0<em>Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board\u00a0<\/em>[2015] UKSC 11 and in doing so overturned a long-standing principle of law established for over 30 years, by holding that the famous Bolam test should no longer govern the liability of doctors in the so-called \u2018informed consent\u2019 cases.\u00a0 Instead of leaving it to the medical profession to decide what should be disclosed to patients, the Supreme Court directed that a more \u2018patient-centred\u2019 test better suited to modern ideals of individual autonomy and human rights must be applied. This case has huge and important implications for the medical profession in Hong Kong (given that the Bolam rule is applied in Hong Kong), and to all lawyers who do medical negligence work.\u00a0 In this Public Lecture, Mr Badenoch QC will explore the implications of\u00a0<em>Montgomer<\/em>y for the new standard for the duty of disclosure owed by doctors to their patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><br \/>James Badenoch, QC (MA Oxford) took silk in 1989, and was lead Counsel for the successful plaintiff in the\u00a0<em>Montgomery<\/em>\u00a0case.\u00a0 He has specialised for over 35 years in clinical negligence, medical law and medical disciplinary cases.\u00a0 He has appeared in a succession of major cases in the House of Lords, the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, the GMC and the GDC, and also in the High Court and the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.\u00a0 He is a Bencher of Lincoln\u2019s Inn, a Deputy High Court Judge (since 1994), a President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal (since 1999), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Chairman Emeritus of the Expert Witness Institute, and has been a Recorder of the Crown Court (1987-2012).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video:<\/strong><br \/>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hNzYBKzUVG8\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"public lecture 4 May 2015 by James Badenode, QC\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNzYBKzUVG8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=&#8221;3816,3814,3819&#8243; show_title_and_caption=&#8221;off&#8221; show_pagination=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4545,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false},"events_types":[266],"events_feature":[126],"events_year":[272],"class_list":["post-8794","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","events_types-seminars-zh","events_feature-other-events-zh","events_year-2015-zh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - 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