QB-2022-002375 - [2025] EWHC 1750 (KB)

The Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before :

HIS HONOUR JUDGE SIMON

(Sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge)

Between :

HLD

(by her mother and Litigation Friend KXD)

Claimant

-v-

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Defendant

Henry Witcombe KC (instructed by Fieldfisher LLP) for the Claimant

Jonathan Holl-Allen KC (instructed by Hill Dickinson LLP) for the Defendant

JUDGMENT

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HHJ Simon :