Litigation in the management of urinary stone disease

To present common technical and non‐technical issues leading to medicolegal litigation, illustrated by a series of 54 cases, to use these examples to prevent harm to patients and to prevent surgeons from having to experience the stress of litigation. A series of 78 medicolegal litigation cases reviewed by a single expert witness over 13 years from 2008 to 2021 was analysed by two reviewers. These are discussed using illustrative examples, and the steps that could have avoided these issues are considered. All major issues and themes are illustrated with cases demonstrating the errors that lead to litigation and the often‐simple steps that can be taken to avoid them. This case series highlights the potentially catastrophic outcomes of even small errors of judgement and allows careful stone surgeons to learn from the experiences of those unfortunate others without having to encounter these situations themselves.