The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1986] QB 644
[COURT OF APPEAL]
THAKE AND ANOTHER
[1981 T. No. 183]
v.
MAURICE
1984 Feb. 27,
28,
29,
March 1, 2; 26
1985 Nov. 4, 5, 6, 7;
Dec. 11
March 1, 2; 26
1985 Nov. 4, 5, 6, 7;
Dec. 11
Peter Pain J. Kerr, Neill and Nourse L.JJ.
Medical Practitioner
— Contract
— Operation
— Contract to perform vasectomy
— Contractual liability of surgeon
— Whether guarantee of permanent sterility
Medical Practitioner
— Negligence
— Duty to inform
— Contract to perform vasectomy operation
— Failure to give warning of possibility of fertility being restored
— Pregnancy occurring after successful operation
— Birth of healthy child
— Whether failure to warn breach of duty of care
— Whether reasonably foreseeable that breach of duty would cause damage
— Whether damages recoverable for ante-natal pain and suffering
646
669
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