The Weekly Law Reports
[2002] 3 WLR 1195
Court of Appeal
Chester
v
Afshar
[2002] EWCA Civ 724
2001 Dec 4,
5;
2002 May 27
2002 May 27
Hale LJ, Sir Christopher Slade and Sir Denis Henry
Medical practitioner
— Negligence
— Causation
— Surgeon negligently failing to warn claimant of risk of post-operative paralysis
— Operation conducted without negligence
— Paralysis occurring
— Claimant proving she would not have had operation at that time had she been informed of risk
— Whether causal link between failure to warn of risk and claimant's injury
— Whether defendant liable
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