The Weekly Law Reports
[2005] 2 WLR 268
House of Lords
Gregg
v
Scott
[2005] UKHL 2
2004 May 24,
25,
26,
27;
2005 Jan 27
2005 Jan 27
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR and Baroness Hale of Richmond
Medical practitioner
— Negligence
— Causation
— Failure to diagnose illness
— Delay of nine months in commencing treatment for cancer
— Probability that patient not surviving ten years even if diagnosis made promptly
— Patient's statistical chance of ten-year survival falling further during period of delay
— Whether damages to be awarded for reduction in chance of survival