Joanna Lloyd

16/09/2025 Written by Joanna Lloyd, Daniel Purcell, and Priyesh Patel Today will finally see the Public Office (Accountability) Bill 2025, better known as ‘Hillsborough Law’ being laid before Parliament. It has been a long road, almost eight and a half years since Andy Burnham and Steve Rotherham, now Metro Mayors of Greater Manchester and Merseyside, laid the original Hillsborough Bill before Parliament, for its first reading.

11/01/2024 The Supreme Court looks de Novo at Secondary Victim claims for psychiatric injury Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Polmear v Royal Cornwall NHS; and Purchase v Dr Ahmed [2024] UKSC 1 Authored by Joanna Lloyd, Bevan Brittan and Charles Bagot KC, Gatehouse Chambers. With two notable exceptions, the common law does not recognise one person as having any legally compensable interest in the physical well-being of another.

-- Claims in which allegations of negligence are made against radiologists are uncommon but sadly not unknown. To the end of the year 2016 to 2017 in England, 2,922 claims involving radiology have been reported to National Health Service (NHS) Resolution since the commencement of its risk pooling scheme in 1995, out of a total of 129,091 claims (2.26%). As can be seen in the table below, this relatively small number of claims has a total value of over 532 million pounds (607.8 million euros).