A v National Blood Authority and Another (No. 1)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Neutral Citation | [2001] EWHC 446 (QB) |
| Date | 2001 |
| Year | 2001 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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29 cases
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TV Media Pte Ltd v De Cruz Andrea Heidi and Another Appeal
...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......
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Anthony Frederick Wilkes v Depuy International Ltd
... ... Mr Justice Hickinbottom ... Case No HQ15P02664 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE ... Broadly, the relevant regulatory authority, applying its own scientific and medical expertise, will ... surgery (including hips) are collected by the National Joint Registry ("the NJR"), which publishes an annual ... the monumental judgment of Burton J in A v National Blood Authority [2001] 3 All ER 289 (" A v NBA ") in this ... when the product was supplied by its producer to another; and nothing in this section shall ... ...
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Rosaleen Kennedy+jean Black V. The Lord Advocate
...history of the identification and naming of the Hepatitis C virus is summarised in A and others v National Blood Authority and another [2001] 3 All E R 289, (per Burton J. at pages 300-1). Around 1990 Mr. Black was diagnosed as suffering from Hepatitis C. [7] When Mr. Black died a post-mort......
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Karl John Chadwick V. Continental Tyre Group Limited
...in the law of delict. Fault required to be eliminated from any consideration whatsoever. [11] In A v National Blood Authority [2001] 3 All ER 289 Burton J, in considering the liability of the defendants for infected blood or blood products, went straight to the Directive itself. At p 297e-j......
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4 firm's commentaries
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Wilkes v DePuy (2016)
...Burton J's controversial approach to "defect" under section 3 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 in A v National Blood Authority (2001) 3 All E.R. 289. The decision provides clarity on the circumstances which may be taken into account when assessing the level of safety that persons are gen......
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Wilkes V Depuy (2016) QBD Departs From Previous Authorities On 'Defect' Claims Under The Consumer Protection Act 1987 And Confirms No Requirement Of Absolute Safety In All Circumstances
...Burton J's controversial approach to "defect" under section 3 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 in A v National Blood Authority (2001) 3 All E.R. 289. The decision provides clarity on the circumstances which may be taken into account when assessing the level of safety that persons are gen......
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Guest Post – Come Together: Is UK Product Liability Law Getting More Like the U.S.?
...UK courts have dealt with this issue, and before Wilkes, the leading case on the concept of “defect” was A v. National Blood Authority (2001) 60 BMLR 1 (“A v. NBA”), from 2001. In that case, the claimants were infected with hepatitis C as a result of blood transfusions. In determining wheth......
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Guest Post Come Together: Is UK Product Liability Law Getting More Like The U.S.?
...UK courts have dealt with this issue, and before Wilkes, the leading case on the concept of "defect" was A v. National Blood Authority (2001) 60 BMLR 1 ("A v. NBA"), from 2001. In that case, the claimants were infected with hepatitis C as a result of blood In determining whether the blood w......
7 books & journal articles
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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?
...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......
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Portrait of development risk as a young defence.
...[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......
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Liability for Products in the Consumer Protection Bill 2006: A Comparative Critique
...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......
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Proprietary Rights in Human Tissue
...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......
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