Yearworth and Others v North Bristol NHS Trust – Times Law Reports

Posted February 10th, 2009 in bailment, human tissue, law reports, negligence, psychiatric damage by sally

Yearworth and Others v North Bristol NHS Trust

Court of Appeal

“A sample of sperm from a person undergoing chemotherapy, which a hospital stored in case he became infertile after the treatment, was that person’s property and its loss or damage was capable of establishing a claim in negligence.”

The Times, 10th February 2009

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