The judgment that unconscious claimants can’t get general damages for pain, suffering or loss of amenities will have an impact on medico-legal claims in South Africa

You might think of snakebite as a niche issue rather than a devastating one. But it is thought to kill somewhere between 80,000 and 140,000 people a year.

In sub-Saharan Africa, patients face a ‘wild west’ where treatments for snake bites cost the Earth or don’t work