Allen v Bloomsbury Health Authority

(1992) 3 Med LR 257

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice BROOKE

Damages — Unwanted child — Principles applicable to measurement of financial cost of bringing up unwanted child — Plaintiff's loss of earnings, prospects of remarriage and employment — Costs of maintaining child, equipment bought for child, garage conversion and enhanced value of house — Whether claim for cost of maintaining child until she was 18, based on average National Foster Care Association figures, was reasonable — Whether cost of child's future wedding recoverable — Plaintiff's claim for pain and suffering and loss of amenity — Whether defendants liable for additional damages because child had temper tantrums, defective speech and slight dyslexia