ANNOUNCEMENT
One of our partners Mr Karthi Kanthabalan is to speak at a webinar entitled “The Practical Aspects of Medico-Legal Litigation” on 26 April 2021. It is organised by the Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee. Attached is a copy of the flyer.
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P S Ranjan
Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court in Malaya on 4 October 1976. Founded the practice on 1 November 1986.
LL.B (Hons.) (Malaya), M.A. (Manchester)
Manmohan S Dhillon
Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court in Malaya on 17 August 1990. Became a partner on 1 January 1997.
LL.B (Hons.) Wolverhampton
Karthi Kanthabalan
Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court in Malaya on 23 April 2010. Became a partner on 1 January 2018.
LL.B (Hons.) MMU
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Articles
MULTIPLIER: Assessment of Damages
In all catastrophic personal injury cases the court and the parties will have to consider the claimant’s life expectancy and multiplier when assessing general damages for the future. The life expectancy would be reduced by a certain number of years so as to arrive at the multiplier. The multiplier would be applied to the annual sum for each item of future loss and damage (e.g. an annual sum for nursing care). The annual sum would be the multiplicand. The equation the multiplier x the multiplicand would yield the total sum of damages for the item of loss and damage concerned.
Read MoreMEDICAL RECORDS: PRESERVATION AND MATTERS OF EVIDENCE
Medical records may need to be preserved for a variety of reasons, medical, legal or administrative. There may be a medical reason for continuing to keep the records but no legal reason for doing so. Conversely, there may be a legal reason for continuing to keep the records but no medical reason for doing so. It may not be enough to preserve medical records. The process of the law may require that further the makers of the documents, if available, be called to give evidence in court so as to assist in the administration of justice.
Read MoreIMAGING THE DEAD (Lecture at the Imaging Conference of the Royal Society of Medicine, U.K. on 21 October 2010)
Much of what I have to say will (I hope) be familiar to many in the audience. However, I believe it is appropriate to go back to basics to set the scene for what is to follow later today. I also do so because at least some in the room might not understand why coroners and others involved in the registration and certification of deaths do what they do.
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