The Weekly Law Reports
[1971] 2 WLR 441
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
DISTILLERS CO. (BIOCHEMICALS) LTD. APPELLANT AND LAURA ANNE THOMPSON RESPONDENT
[ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES]
1970 Nov. 10,
11,
12,
16;
1971 Jan. 19
1971 Jan. 19
Lord Reid, Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest, Lord Upjohn, Lord Donovan and Lord Pearson
Australia
— New South Wales
— Jurisdiction
— Negligence
— Drug manufactured and sold in England to Australian company
— Sale of drug to plaintiff's mother
— Injury to plaintiff due to mother taking drug when plaintiff en ventre sa mere
— Failure to warn mother of drug's dangerous qualities
— Whether plaintiff's cause of action against manufacturers arose within jurisdiction
—
Common Law Procedure Act, New South Wales No. 21 of 1899), s. 18 (4) (a)