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Evidential Status of Medical Records & Lifting Babies: Cooper v Bright Horizons [2013] EWHC 2349 (David Pittaway QC sitting as a High Court Judge, QBD) - Ben Posford, Osbornes Solicitors LLP & Daniel Lawson, 9 Gough Square

09/09/13. Mrs Cooper (“C”) worked as a nursery nurse at the Little Stars Nursery in Harpenden, which was owned by Bright Horizons (“D”). On 2nd June 2009 C was required to use a cot in the baby sleeping room on which the drop down side had been rendered inoperative such that it could not be lowered. The side had been tied up with plastic cable ties which could not be undone...

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