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Childbirth Injury: Liability issues
Rushmi Sethi examines clinical negligence claims concerning childbirth injury ‘The doctor’s obligation, other than in cases where it would damage the patient’s welfare, was to present the material risks and uncertainties of different treatments, and to allow patients to make decisions that would affect their health and well-being on proper information.’ Relatively few childbirth injury …
Cases Referenced
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- Bailey v Ministry of Defence [2008] EWCA Civ 883
- Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
- C (by his Father and Litigation Friend F) v North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust [2014] EWHC 61 (QB)
- Chappell (as personal representative of Callum Lee Chappell) v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2013] EWHC 4023 (QB)
- Coyle v Lanarkshire Health Board [2014] CSIH 78
- Hunter v Hanley [1955] CSIH 2
- Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2010] CSOH 104; [2015] UKSC 11
- Popple (a child by Stephen Popple his Litigation Friend) v Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust [2011] EWHC 2320 (QB); [2012] EWCA Civ 1628
- Sherwood (by her Mother and Litigation Friend Michelle Sherwood) v Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2011] EWHC 3104 (QB)
- Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital [1985] UKHL 1
- Tasmin v Barts Health NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 3135 (QB)
- Webster (a child) v Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 62
- Zhang (a child suing by his Mother and Litigation Friend Shifang Liu) v Homerton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2012] EWHC 1208 (QB)