Mediating Clinical Claims

Tony Allen first mediated clinical claims in the UK in the 1990s, and has been consistently rated as a leading mediator in this field by Legal Directories. He has written and trained on this topic in the UK and internationally. He is a Senior Consultant to CEDR, after 30 years of solicitor’s practice followed by 12 years as a CEDR Director, and remains a Lead Member of CEDR’s training faculty. He mediates complex cases for CEDR’s Clinical Negligence Panel.

...any mediator, advocate, policy maker or insurer involved in clinical negligence claims should buy and read this book

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Party objectives in clinical claimsChapter 2 Settlement processes and trials of clinical claimsChapter 3 The legal and procedural framework for clinical mediations in England and WalesChapter 4 Coping with legal and clinical technicalitiesChapter 5 Choices over clinical mediations: whether to mediate, when, where, and with which mediator?Chapter 6 Preparing for a clinical mediationChapter 7 The mediation dayChapter 8 Mediating clinical claims with multiple partiesChapter 9 Settlement: what is a ‘successful’ clinical mediation?Chapter 10 The future for mediation in clinical claimsPostscriptAppendix A CEDR Mediation AgreementAppendix B CEDR Mediation Model Procedure, 2018 EditionAppendix C CEDR Code of Conduct for Third Party NeutralsAppendix D European Code of Conduct for MediatorsAppendix E Typical Tomlin Order in a clinical negligence claimAppendix F Mediation settlement agreement in the same case (if required)Appendix G Pre-Action Protocol for the Resolution of Clinical DisputesIndex