A legal basis for liability for damages due to wrongful deprivation of liberty and wrongful conviction

Damages claim for wrongful birth due to a systems failure.

Health professionals are well versed in the need to have systems in place which avoid mishaps happening to patients due to human error or breakdown in communications: for example, legal actions for damages for operations wrongfully performed on patients due to a failure in the identification process; surgery involving the wrong limb or organ; medications being given to the wrong patient. Hospit...

Legal liability for failure to prevent pregnancy (wrongful pregnancy).

Can the conception of a child ever constitute damage recoverable in law? This article considers the liability of healthcare practitioners for failing to prevent a pregnancy. Developments leading to the recognition of wrongful pregnancy as a cause of (legal) action in South Africa (SA), are briefly outlined. The salient points of the relevant judgments by SA courts are set out to expose the rati...

Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction

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Backdoor eugenics: the troubling implications of certain damages awards in wrongful birth and wrongful life claims.

Disclaimers of Wrongful Discharge Liability: Time for a Crackdown?