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Doctors treating individuals with serious ailments owe a legal duty of care not just to their patients but to third parties associated with the people they are treating.That is the key implication of a high court ruling last week in the case of a woman who had sued doctors because they failed to tell her about her fathers fatal hereditary disease, Huntingtons, before she had her own child. Had she known of the risks involved, she would have terminated the pregnancy, she argued.The woman, known as ABC, lost the case. Mrs Justice Yip announced on Friday that despite having sympathy for the womans circumstances, it had not been established she would have had a termination had she known the risks to her unborn baby.View image in fullscreenThe ruling by Justice Yip in the case brought by the relative of a man suffering fr
stanley cup om Huntingtons has established new rights for relatives. Photograph: Avalon Our client is very disappointed, said Jonathan Zimmern, of Fieldfisher who acted for ABC. This judgment is nevertheless important. For the first time, the law now requires clinicians to perform a detailed balancing exercise between the interests of the patient in keeping information confidential and those of any at-risk third par
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This sad case Their mothers beside them, boys aged 10 and 11 are convicted of attempted rape, 25 May highlights the inappropriateness of dealing with very young children in an adversarial, formal court system designed for adult offenders. Children of this age 鈥?both the witness and the defendants 鈥?cannot
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canada stanley he criminal justice system cannot be the proper place to discover the truth of matters such as this.The National Association for Youth Justice has long advocated that the age of criminal responsibility should be raised, and that younger children should be dealt with by a process that is inquisitorial rather than adversarial, that focuses on the welfare of all the children involved and that facilitates interventions that are broader than those available to a court to address the needs of all concerned.That way, we stand a realistic chance of ensuring child offenders understand the serious nature of their actions and are less likely to reoffend in later life. The criminal justice system cannot do this. It is, therefore, particularly concerning that under the new government the r
stanley ca esponsibility for children in trouble with the law has been removed from any department concerned with child welfare and is now solely the remit of the Ministry of Justice.Pam HibbertNational Association for Youth JusticeExplore more on these topicsYouth justiceChildrenCrimeUK criminal justicelettersShareReus
