Baig v City & Hackney Health Authority

[1994] LS Law Med 221

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice ROUGIER

Limitation — Knowledge — Discretion — Whether sufficiently firm conviction constituted “knowledge” — Operation which patient had been assured was virtually certain of success proving a disaster — Patient an educated, professional man — Whether patient put on inquiry — First medical reports unfavourable to patient's case — Whether unreasonable for patient not to seek advice earlier — Considerable and, largely unexplained, delay — Whether defendants would be prejudiced — Defendants” insurance arrangements changed