A v National Blood Authority and Another (No. 1)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtQueen's Bench Division
Neutral Citation[2001] EWHC 446 (QB)
Year2001
Date2001

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18 cases
  • TV Media Pte Ltd v De Cruz Andrea Heidi and Another Appeal
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 8 July 2004
    ...manifestly too low in the circumstances. 179 Andrea brought our attention to the United Kingdom case of A v National Blood Authority [2001] 3 All ER 289; 60 BMLR 1 at [279], where the plaintiff, a 56-year-old lady, suffered from cirrhosis of the liver and underwent a liver transplant operat......
  • Anthony Frederick Wilkes v Depuy International Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 6 December 2016
    ...which have considered the relevant issues. However, Mr Trotman relied upon the monumental judgment of Burton J in A v National Blood Authority [2001] 3 All ER 289 (" A v NBA") in this regard. The claimants had been infected with the hepatitis C virus through blood transfusions which had use......
  • Yearworth and others v North Bristol NHS Trust
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 February 2009
    ...Neutral Citation Number: [2009] EWCA Civ 37 ... Case No: B3/2008/0757 ... IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE ... The treatment was provided for ... them under the National Health Service ... The men accepted the advice of the ... features (and indeed, as we have said, another document was shown to us which ... suggested that ... being kept, such as hair to be kept as a memento or blood to be ... dried and incorporated into a work of art, the ... Townsend is unable to cite domestic or any other authority whether from the ... Commonwealth or from the United States ... ...
  • Multiple claimants v Sanifo-Synthelabo Ltd and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 31 July 2007
    ...under the 1987 Act is an area of law which is uncertain and developing (as a mere glance at the judgment of Burton J in A and others v National Blood Authority and others (2001) 65 BMLR 1 demonstrates). In Barrett v Enfield LBC, [2001] 2 AC 550 at p.557E/G, Lord Browne-Wilkinson said: — “I......
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  • Autonomy and the Law of the Faster Horse: In Response to the Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles, What Aspects of the Australian and Irish Legal Liability Frameworks Require Reform?
    • Ireland
    • Hibernian Law Journal No. 21-2022, July 2022
    • 12 July 2022
    ...PLD art 6; implemented through s 5 of the Liability for Defective Products Act 1991 (Ireland) s 5; A v National Blood Authority [2001] 3 All ER 289 considering Consumer Protection Act 1987 (UK) s PLD art 6. This was implemented in Ireland through s 5 of the 1991 Act. PLD art 1; Liability fo......
  • Portrait of development risk as a young defence.
    • Canada
    • McGill Law Journal Vol. 59 No. 4, June - June 2014
    • 1 June 2014
    ...[emphasis added]). (55) See ibid. At the time Justice Burton was deliberating on A and others v National Blood Authority and another ([2001] EWHC 446 (QB), [2001] 3 All ER 289 (QBD) [A and others]), he was well aware of the German Mineralwasserflasche case, and to some degree borrowed the n......
  • Liability for Products in the Consumer Protection Bill 2006: A Comparative Critique
    • South Africa
    • Juta Stellenbosch Law Review No. , May 2019
    • 27 May 2019
    ...that, because of thestrict quality guidelines that are followed in blood transfusion services,68See, eg, A v National Blood Authority 2001 3 All ER 289. This contrasts with the US where ‘‘bloodshield’’ laws have been passed in most States to the effect that blood and blood derivatives are n......
  • Proprietary Rights in Human Tissue
    • Ireland
    • Hibernian Law Journal No. 12-2013, January 2013
    • 1 January 2013
    ...Liability to Recipients of HIV Contaminated Blood” (1992) 18 Dayton Law Review 87; A and Others v National Blood Authority and Another [2001] 3 All ER 289; this case made legal history in the United Kingdom for being the f‌irst case to succeed against the producer of a medical product. 06 V......