[2025] EWCA Civ 1126

Appeal No: CA-2024-002798

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

Mr Justice Nicklin

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before:

SIR GEOFFREY VOS, MASTER OF THE ROLLS

LORD JUSTICE WARBY

and

LADY JUSTICE WHIPPLE

BETWEEN:

Robert Weir KC and Robert Oldham (instructed by Hugh James) for PMC (the Claimant)

Jeremy Hyam KC (of NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership)for Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (the Defendant)

Luke Browne for the British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC)

Anya Proops KC, Stephen Cottrell andHannah Ready (instructed by Simpson Millar LLP) on behalf of Personal Injuries Bar Association

Nicola Greaney KC appointed by the Attorney General as the Advocate to the Court

Fiona Paterson KC (instructed by the Official Solicitor) for the Official Solicitor

Hearing dates: 25 February and 22 and 23 July 2025

JUDGMENT

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10:00am on 28 August 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.