McAllister v Lewisham and N Southwark Health Authority and others

(1994) 5 Med LR 343

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice ROUGIER

Professional liability — Neurosurgery — Informed consent — Bolam test — Risk involved in surgery to correct arteriovascular malformation (avm) — 10 per cent likelihood of risk occurring — Whether warnings by surgeon were adequate — Whether plaintiff should have been provided with information to enable her consent to be effective — Whether plaintiff had succeeded in establishing causal connection