Hendy v Milton Keynes Health Authority

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date08 March 1991
Date08 March 1991
CourtQueen's Bench Division

Queen's Bench Division

Hendy
and
Milton Keynes Health Authority

Limitation of actions - personal injuries - surgical operations

Date of knowledge of cause of injury

For the purposes of section 11 of the Limitation Act 1980, in personal injury cases involving surgical operations, while a plaintiff's date of knowledge that an injury was attributable in whole or in part to an operation could well have depended on the date when she had received an expert's report, in a less complicated case the date of...

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17 cases
  • Kara Rayner v Wolferstans (A Firm)(1st Defendant) Medway Nhs Foundation Trust (2nd Defendant)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 23 October 2015
    ...be sufficient to set time running if the claimant has "broad knowledge" of these matters. In the clinical negligence case of Hendy v Milton Keynes Health Authority 1992 3Med LR, 114, at 117 Blofeld J said a plaintiff may have sufficient knowledge if she appreciates "in general terms" that h......
  • Haward and Others v Fawcetts (A Firm) and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 1 March 2006
    ...if the claimant has 'broad knowledge' of these matters. In the clinical negligence case of Hendy v Milton Keynes Health Authority [1992] 3 Med LR 114, 117, Blofeld J said a plaintiff may have sufficient knowledge if she appreciates 'in general terms' that her problem was capable of being at......
  • Kensland Realty Ltd v Tai, Tang Chong
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 7 March 2008
    ...considered what had been said in Wilkinson v. Ancliff (BLT) Ltd [1986] 1 WLR 1352 at p.1365, Hendy v. Milton Keynes Health Authority [1992] 3 Med LR 114 at pp 117-118, Nash v. Eli Lilly & Co. [1993] 1 WLR 782 at pp 797-799, Spargo v. North Essex District Health Authority [1997] PIQR 235at p......
  • Ms Monique Trainer v Cramer Pelmont (A Firm)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 25 September 2019
    ...to set time running if the claimant has ‘broad knowledge’ of these matters. In the clinical negligence case of Hendy v Milton Keynes Health Authority [1992] 3 Med LR 114, 117, Blofeld J said a plaintiff may have sufficient knowledge if she appreciates ‘in general terms’ that her problem was......
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