The Nottingham Crown Court jury found Ian Paterson guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and three counts of unlawful wounding. Prosecutors say the 59-year-old doctor lied to patients or exaggerated their risk of cancer to persuade them to have surgery.

A common option for those in a legal pickle — whether it's to right some wrong, prove one's own innocence or another's guilt — is to obtain the services of an expert witness. And providing those expert witnesses has become something of a business.

Experts say the High Court ruling “turns the tide” in favor of family members claiming compensation in cases of medical negligence.

But while the NHS apologizes to Linda Lindley over delays in her treatment, it has also apologized for a delay in sending her a written apology.

Sitting in the hospital’s emergency room, the 24-year-old had collapsed in extreme pain from internal bleeding in her abdomen. The nurses had scrambled to find her a stretcher while she waited to be seen. Ball didn’t know it at that the time, but she would spend the entirety of her five-day stay at the hospital lying on that same stretcher — in a hallway.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, a coalition of ten charities say the scheme to cap legal costs payable to lawyers in almost two thirds of medical negligence cases would bar the most vulnerable from compensation.

He says he performed over 6,000 gastric-band operations at Slimband Inc. and elsewhere, more than any other Canadian surgeon. And the company seemed until recently to be booming, its glossy website full of glowing patient testimonials, its billboards showing off satisfied customers.

She said she was told at the time that the mistake was no one’s fault and that “medicine is not an exact science.”

Jake, of The Fairway, Sandown, was just 12 years old when he first attended St Mary's Hospital suffering from hip pain.