Wakefield scheme to prove "new syndrome" submitted for legal funding in June 1996

This page is research from a Sunday Times investigation by Brian Deer | Part I: The Lancet scandal | Part III: The riddle is solved

On 6 June 1996 - 21 months before the now-notorious Lancet MMR paper of 28 February 1998, which set out a series of investigations of children with developmental disorders, solicitor Richard Barr and surgeon Andrew Wakefield, filed the "proposed protocol" below, and a document [virtually the same as this], with the UK government's Legal Aid Board. As the document shows, it sets out a series of costed clinical and scientific tests for a "new syndrome": as would be reported later in the journal