Risk, consent and responsibility for outcome

TY - JOUR

T1 - Risk, consent and responsibility for outcome

AU - Maclean, Alasdair

N1 - dc.publisher: Nottingham Law School

PY - 2005

Y1 - 2005

N2 - Comments on the House of Lords judgment in Chester v Afshar on whether a surgeon was liable in negligence for failing to warn the claimant about the risk of paralysis resulting from an operation where she claimed that had she known about the risk she would have delayed the operation, but could not rule out the possibility that she would have consented at a later date. Considers the nature and extent of the damages available to the claimant. © 2011 Sweet & Maxwell

AB - Comments on the House of Lords judgment in Chester v Afshar on whether a surgeon was liable in negligence for failing to warn the claimant about the risk of paralysis resulting from an operation where she claimed that had she known about the risk she would have delayed the operation, but could not rule out the possibility that she would have consented at a later date. Considers the nature and extent of the damages available to the claimant. © 2011 Sweet & Maxwell

KW - Causation

KW - Clinical negligence

KW - Duty to warn

KW - Informed consent

KW - Measure of damages

KW - Surgical procedures

M3 - Article

SN - 0965-0660

VL - 14

SP - 57

EP - 65

JO - Nottingham Law Journal

JF - Nottingham Law Journal

IS - 1

ER -