What is meant by the legal phrase ‘Res Ipsa Loquitur’?
A latin phrase for “the facts speak for themselves.” Res ipsa loquitur is a rule of evidence under which an individual is deemed, under certain specific circumstances, to be negligent by mere occurrence of the incident and where the law presumes that the injury could not have occurred but for negligence. An example of a res ispsa loquitur case would be a retained foreign body claim.
