What is meant by the legal phrase res ipsa loquitur?
A Latin phrase meaning “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 by tort negligence. An example of a res ipsa loquitur case would be a retained foreign body claim.
