NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION : STATE OF QUEENSLAND (sued as The South Coast Regional Health Authority t/a Gold Coast Hospital) & ANOR. v. BLOODWORTH [2002] NSWCA 134 FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40966/2000 HEARING DATE(S) : 13-14 September 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 22 May 2002
PARTIES : South Coast Regional Health Authority t/a Gold Coast Hospital and Dr. Geoffrey Miller (Appellants) Charles Bloodworth (Respondent) JUDGMENT OF : Powell JA at 1; Ipp AJA at 39; Sperling J at 112
LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Supreme Court - Common Law Division LOWER COURT CLD 20052/95 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT McInerney AJ JUDICIAL OFFICER :
COUNSEL : J.L. Glissan QC and J.A. McDougall (Appellants) A.S. Morrison SC and D.W. Elliott (Respondent) Moyles (Coomera Qld) by their City Agents, SOLICITORS : Cowley Hearne (North Sydney) (Appellants) Gerard Malouf & Partners (North Parramatta) (Respondent) CATCHWORDS : NEGLIGENCE - Breach of duty - Medical practitioner - Duty to warn of possibility of risks involved in proposed operation - Extent of duty - Whether duty discharged. - NEGLIGENCE - Breach of duty - Medical practitioner - General surgeon - Laparoscopic surgery - Standard of care to be observed - Whether standard met. D DECISION : Appeal allowed; New trial ordered
- 1 -IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COURT OF APPEAL CA 40966/2000 CLD 20052/95
POWELL JA IPP AJA SPERLING J
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