Pathologist in Sally Clark case suspended from court work
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Unexpected infant death: lessons from the Sally Clark case.
In November 1999, in the United Kingdom, a woman was convicted of the murder of her two infant sons. An appeal against the conviction was dismissed in October 2000, but the conviction was quashed by a second court of appeal in January 2003. Review of the autopsy findings showed that standard procedures had not always been followed, thus limiting verification of the alleged findings. Some potent...
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Peter Whitfield Whitfield is ACNRs Neurosurgery editor. He is a Consultant and Associate Professor in Neurosurgery at the South West Neurosurgery Centre, Plymouth. His clinical interests are wide, including neurovascular conditions, head injury, stereotactic radiosurgery, image guided tumour surgery and lumbar microdiscectomy. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and t...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7504.1347