Talk:Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee

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Essayish[edit]

While it's good (really good - I think User:David91 is to thank for this) to have the case summaries below, the foregoing discussion is I think not well enough rooted in actual legal material. It's unreferenced. I think it should be deleted, or reorganised. Maybe it's more appropriate to the professional negligence page? I've changed the page's name to the Bolam case itself and put in the relevant facts and extract from the judgment. Wik idea 11:27, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why Australian Law?[edit]

I do not understand why Australian law is being cited here in a thread which is about the law of England and Wales. By all means have a separate section dealing with how Bolam has been cited in other legal systems but at the moment the latter two cases cited have nothing to do with English law! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:2002:2F8:A2BE:1BD:FF9B:C180:7F6C (talk) 10:07, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References needed[edit]

There is no question that this is a landmark case. There are numerous scholarly reliable secondary sources that say so, and analyze the case and its progeny at length. The problem is that none of those sources are cited as references, and the article appears to be entirely original research on the part of the various editors who have contributed to it. Simply summarizing cases based solely on the decision itself, without reference to secondary sources is original research. The reported decision of a court is a primary source and cannot be the sole basis for the article. The article needs to be rewritten with the text based instead on reliable secondary sources, which happily are readily available. Banks Irk (talk) 17:36, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]