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Supreme Court Revisits Wrongful Birth Claims

Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21 In Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21 the Supreme Court has revisited the principles to be applied in 'wrongful birth” claims: claims for the cost of bringing up a disabled child who would not have been born but for a doctor’s negligent medical advice/treatment.…

By Robert Kellar KC, Owain Thomas KC July 28, 2021Clinical negligence, Issue 9Scope of duty, Wrongful birth

Clinical negligence Issue 2

Scope of Duty

This article originally appeared in Issue 2 (July 2019). One of the recurring themes in negligence case-law over the past 12 months has been the extent to which some or all aspects of a claimant’s claimed damage should be determined to lie within the scope of a defendant’s duty of…

By Dominic Ruck Keene July 1, 2019Clinical negligence, Issue 2Duty of care, Scope of duty

Clinical negligence Issue 1

Damages and the scope of duty

Meadows v Khan [2019] EWCA Civ 152 This article originally appeared in Issue 1 (May 2019). In this case the Court of Appeal confirmed that when considering the question of liability for damages in negligence for wrongful birth, the correct test was the ‘scope of duty’ test in Australia Asset…

By Suzanne Lambert May 1, 2019Clinical negligence, Issue 1Causation, Scope of duty, Wrongful birth