CL-2022-000676 - [2025] EWHC 2486 (Comm)

The question here is the contingent question of whether, had a different view been taken on the question of the contractual meaning of sterility and the knock-on effects as regards the contractual obligations, DHSC has proved on the balance of probabilities that the gowns were not sterile. This encompasses the majority of the expert evidence, as it raises issues of statistics and of sterility/sterilisation of medical devices.