Risk outweighs interests - The Times 30th November 2007

The risk of harm to the residents of registered homes outweighed the economic interests of the registered home proprietor. The Court of Appeal so stated allowing the appeal of Trent Strategic Health Authority from Sir Douglas Brown ([2006] EWHC 3019 (QB)) who had held that the authority owed a duty of care to the claimants, Ashok Jain and Nisha Jain, to give advance notice in respect of its application for a court order to cancel the registration of their nursing home and to close it.

Link to Article