Parry v Clwyd Health Authority

[1997] LS Law Med 243

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice COLMAN

Limitation — Knowledge — Objective test — Breech delivery — Baby severly disabled by cerebral palsy — Plaintiff and mother accepting damage as normal hazard of child birth — Plaintiff alerted to possibility of claim by television programme — Whether objective or subjective test applicable — Criteria relevant for application of reasonableness test under Limitation Act 1980 sect 14(3) — Whether knowledge in Limitation Act 1980 referred exclusively to knowledge of plaintiff