Powell v Boladz

[1998] Lloyd's Rep Med 116

COURT OF APPEAL

Lord Justice STUART-SMITH,, Lord Justice MORRITT, and Lord Justice SCHIEMANN

Doctor — Duty of care — Relatives of deceased child patient — Alleged substitution of forged for genuine documents in medical records following death — Claims by parents of deceased child based on breach of duty of care and conspiracy — Whether duty of care owed to relatives — Whether psychiatric injury to relatives reasonably foreseeable — Claim by mother as secondary victim witnessing trauma of child's suffering and death — Whether intention to injure could be imputed to defendants — Whether conspiracy pleaded or made out on facts — Whether expenses of appeal to Secretary of State resulted from unlawful acts