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24/03/2025

Genetic testing – whose choice is it anyway?

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Ben Collins KC and Emily Raynor‘s article on ‘Genetic testing – whose choice is it anyway?’ features in the March issue of the AvMA Lawyer Service Newsletter.

Ben and Emily consider the increasingly vexed question of when the Court should order a Claimant to undergo genetic or other testing, and when a stay should be ordered in a case where the Claimant declines to do so. They consider in particular the recent High Court decision in Clarke v Poole and others [2024] 1 WLR 5149, which is currently awaiting a permission decision from the Court of Appeal (Ben Collins KC and David Rivers of Old Square Chambers, instructed by Kate Nicklin of Irwin Mitchell, for the Claimant).

To read Ben and Emily’s article, click here.

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