Dr Jo Beswick (Department of Law) has recently have been successful (as part of a team of three) in receiving an award from the British Academy’s Research Awards Committee. The team lead by Professor Jo Samanta (De Montfort University, Leicester) and also compromising Dr Ash Samanta (University Hospitals Leicester) will address the question ‘To what extent are clinical guidelines used as a proxy for the standard of care in clinical negligence litigation?.

The research will be conducted through an interdisciplinary empirical structure and will investigate how evidence based clinical guidelines are used by defendant doctors, the courts and lawyers. The project is expected to be of 18 months duration, and in addition to producing academic articles, will culminate in a dissemination event to showcase the results and key learning outcomes. The event will be held at a central London location with invited delegates including representatives from the National Health Service Litigation Authority, the Medical Defence Unions and legal practitioners.