The purpose of this website is to look at the Pinnacle Hip Trial Verdict that was released on 21st May 2018, and determine what can be done about it.
For the full and summary verdicts click HERE
It seems that the only way that I can do something about the verdict is to attempt to take legal action on my own. i.e. not as part of a group or class action.
I have started this process, but it's tricky.
I'm starting to think that the legal process should have been a different sort of trial, because so many have been seriously damaged by Chrome/Cobalt prostheses.
If a company permanently and seriously injures people … is that a criminal act?
The 'appeal out of time' caught my attention,
and the question is …
Was the decision one
which no reasonable judge
could have come to?
… having sound judgement,
being fair, conscientious,
sensible and wise.
If you have any views on this, or the 'appeal out of time' idea, then do please get in touch.
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At the Trial …
DePuy convinced the Court that National Joint Register data was not valid for assessment of Pinnacle Ultamet durability. They did this by arguing:
A) that patients and surgeons were rushing to replace Ultamet hips in 2010, when the DePuy ASR hip was recalled
B) that cross linked polyethylene prostheses had become available after Ultamet was introduced - and were potentially superior, and not valid for performance comparison
C) that gender, BMI, activity, and age differences made it impossible to compare different prostheses
None of these points are valid.
DePuy's barristers invested a large amount of time and effort in undermining the UK's National Joint Registry, because …
… UK National Joint Registry data provides clear evidence that the Pinnacle Metal-on-Metal prosthesis is, and always was, unreliable and unsafe …
… just as any other Metal-on-Metal prosthesis manufactured using a cobalt/chrome alloy.
Here are some of the images that support my view on the verdict.
They show that Mrs Justice Andrews' verdict contradicts verifiable facts detailed in Part 1 to Part 5 of this website.
This is why I do not agree with Mrs Justice Andrews' verdict.
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