AB v Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust; Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust

[2005] Lloyd's Rep Med 01

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice GAGE

Group litigation — Whether doctors owed duty of care to parents when obtaining consent for post-mortem examination — Negligent failure to warn of organ removal and retention — Whether parents had a duty to bury deceased child's body — Whether property in a body or body parts, removed organs or tissue — Whether right of possession to retain removed organs and tissue — Tort of wrongful interference with a body or removed organs or tissue — Whether psychiatric injury reasonably foreseeable — Sections 1 and 2 of the Human Tissue Act 1961 — Articles 8 and 9 ECHR — Exemplary and aggravated damages