Index card Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust

Hearings

England & Wales

30 Jul 2009 [2009] EWHC 1827 (QB); [2010] PIQR P10, QBD

21 Jun 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 698; [2011] QB 1019; [2011] 3 WLR 603; [2011] PTSR 1028 ; [2010] WLR (D) 152 {0} {1} , CA

08 Feb 2012 (INQUEST intervening) [2012] UKSC 2; [2012] 2 AC 72; [2012] 2 WLR 381; [2012] PTSR 497; [2012] 2 All ER 381; [2012] WLR (D) 23; Case details, SC(E)

Subject Matter

HUMAN RIGHTS — Life — Breach — Voluntary psychiatric patient committing suicide having been allowed to leave hospital when at real and immediate risk of death by suicide — Action by parents against NHS trust for breach of patient’s Convention right to life — Proceedings issued after statutory one-year time limit had elapsed — Whether trust under positive obligation to take preventative operational measures to protect life of voluntary psychiatric patient — Whether breach of obligation to investigate death — Whether settlement of negligence claim depriving parents of “victim” status — Whether appropriate to extend time — Whether award of £5,000 damages appropriate — Human Rights Act 1998, s 7, Sch 1, Pt I, art 2

[2010] EWCA Civ 698; [2011] QB 1019; [2011] 3 WLR 603; [2011] PTSR 1028 ; [2010] WLR (D) 152 {0} {1} , CA

[2012] UKSC 2; [2012] 2 AC 72; [2012] 2 WLR 381; [2012] PTSR 497; [2012] 2 All ER 381; [2012] WLR (D) 23; Case details, SC(E)

Appellate History

Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust [2009] EWHC 1827 (QB); [2010] PIQR P10, QBD

Decision of Simon J affirmed

Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust [2010] EWCA Civ 698; [2011] QB 1019; [2011] 3 WLR 603; [2011] PTSR 1028 ; [2010] WLR (D) 152 {0} {1} , CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal reversed

Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust [2012] UKSC 2; [2012] 2 AC 72; [2012] 2 WLR 381; [2012] PTSR 497; [2012] 2 All ER 381; [2012] WLR (D) 23; Case details, SC(E)