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Compensation: Recovering damages in wrongful life cases
Suzanne Farg gives guidance on pursuing clinical negligence claims for ‘wrongful conception’ and ‘wrongful birth’ The essential characteristics of reproductive and antenatal medical treatment are such that negligence in these areas will often have further reaching implications for the patient and his or her family, than negligence in other areas of medicine. Particular examples are …
Cases Referenced
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- AD v East Kent Community NHS Trust [2002] EWCA Civ 1872
- Groom v Selby [2001] EWCA Civ 1522
- Hardman v Amin [2000] Lloyd's Rep Med 498
- Less v Hussain [2012] EWHC 3513 (QB)
- McFarlane v Tayside Health Board [2000] 2 AC 59
- McKay v Essex Area Health Authority [1982] QB 1166
- Nunnerley and Nunnerley v Warrington Health Authority and Liverpool Health Authority [2000] PIQR Q69
- Parkinson v St James and Seacroft University Hospital NHS Trust [2001] EWCA Civ 530
- Rand v East Dorset Health Authority [2001] PIQR Q1
- Rees v Darlington Memorial Hospital NHS Trust [2003] UKHL 52