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Rad Hamed: Club Breached its Duty - Diane Rostron, Linder Myers Solicitors

08/04/15. Diane Rostron, medical negligence partner at Linder Myers Solicitors, talks about her recent case against Tottenham Hotspur and a Harley Street cardiologist On the 1st August 2006 Radwan Hamed, then aged 17, signed on professional terms with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. He was a gifted and dedicated footballer who had been associated with the Club since the age of 11. It was hoped, and by many, expected, that he would become a successful professional footballer. However, just nine days later, whilst playing for the Club’s youth team in Belgium, he suffered a cardiac arrest which resulted in catastrophic brain damage.

Radwan, in legal action commenced in the High Court through his father and Litigation Friend, claimed that the cardiac arrest, and consequent brain damage, resulted from the negligence of Dr Peter Mills (the cardiologist who screened him) and his employer Tottenham Hotspur. Dr Charlotte Cowie and Dr Mark Curtin were the specialist in-house sports physicians employed by Spurs at the time.

It has long been recognised in the world of athletics and football that young athletes may suffer from cardiac abnormalities which, if they remain undetected and the athlete is permitted to continue to play, place that athlete at risk of sudden cardiac death...

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