King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court

QB-2022-002633 - [2025] EWHC 2576 (KB)

Fecha: 29-Oct-2025

Section 1

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10:30am on 29 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

HIS HONOUR JUDGE SIMON:

Introduction

This is a claim in negligence arising out of complications following bariatric surgery. By an order dated 20 November 24, the trial before me was a liability only trial, dealing with breach of duty and causation.

The Claim initially encompassed issues relating directly to the performance of the sleeve gastrectomy procedure (the procedure). Shortly before the trial, leave was given for the claim to be amended. The parameters of the claim at trial are set out below at paragraph 15.

For ease, I set out in tabular form the identity of the witnesses in this case, their role and the abbreviation adopted to refer to them in the body of the judgment:

*Name*	*Role*	*Abbreviation*
Mrs Alison Tarrant	Claimant (patient)	C
Mr Simon Monkhouse	Defendant (surgeon, member MDT)	D
Lucy Jones	Bariatric dietitian (member of MDT)	LJ
Sarah Wrigglesworth	Psychotherapist (member of MDT)	SW
Sarah Roche	Bariatric nurse (member of MDT)	SR
Mr Vittal Rao	Bariatric surgeon – C’s expert	Mr Rao
Mr Sackhawat Rahman	Bariatric surgeon – D’s expert	Mr Rahman