The Bolam Test
Scope
The standard of care for professionals: a responsible body of opinion, its adoption for doctors in India, and the pressure on it.
Authorities to start from
- Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee, [1957] 1 WLR 582
- Jacob Mathew v. State of Punjab, (2005) 6 SCC 1
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