
Ep 83: Scope of Duty and Causation: Chester v Afshar revisited - Part 2
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Is There Any Hope Left Out There for Chester?
The claimant said, even if i can't win for my psychiatric injury on conventional principles, that i should win because my shock and distress and later depression, was intimately connected with ha failure to obtain consent. And lady justice davis, the the judge, determined, even if the opponent had been warned of the relevant risk, she would have still proceeded with the mesh repair. So is there any hope left out there for chester? Well, interestingly, twelfth of april, mills against oxford, karenstein c c held that there had been a lack of informed consent to nero surgery which resulted in a stroke. That case, you'll find. Unconventional, but
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