Fairhurst v St Helens & Knowsley Health Authority

[1994] LS Law Med 422

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Honour Judge David CLARKE QC

Causation — Brain damage — Kernicterus — Rhesus incompatibility with plaintiff's mother known before birth — Neonatal jaundice noted at early stage after birth — Admittedly negligent delay in exchange transfusion — Plaintiff suffering brain damage — Causation admitted of two of the four essential elements of plaintiff's disability, choreoathetosis and deafness — Whether all plaintiff's brain damage caused by kernicterus — Quantum of damages