Forbes v Wandsworth Health Authority

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judgment Date14 March 1996
Date14 March 1996

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    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
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    ... ... cogent medical evidence showing a serious effect on the claimant's health or enjoyment of life and employability. The likely amount of an award is ... that the judge did not, as he was urged to do by counsel, and as authority requires, address the strength of the claim on liability ... Mr Leech refers to another judgment of Stuart-Smith LJ in Forbes v Wandsworth Health Authority [1997] QB 402 , the passage being at ... ...
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    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 3 July 2003
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  • O'Sullivan v Ireland
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 24 January 2018
    ...unnecessary and negligent. 17 Geoghegan J. expressly approved a number of passages from the English cases. In Forbes v Wandsworth HA [1997] QB 402, Stuart-Smith LJ at p. 411 said: 'In many medical negligence cases the plaintiff will not know that his injury is attributable to the omission o......
  • O'Sullivan v Ireland, the Attorney General
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 23 May 2019
    ...which was reasonably available and which would have shown that nerve damage had been caused. In Forbes v Wandsworth Health Authority [1997] QB 402, the plaintiff had a leg amputated. Time did not begin to run from that event but, instead, from the time when he had reasonably obtained exper......
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