The Weekly Law Reports
[2022] 4 WLR 73
Court of Appeal
Regina (CN) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
[2022] EWCA Civ 86
2022 Jan 25; Feb 4
Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, King, Dingemans LJJ
Human rights— Discrimination— Similar relevant status— Claimant contracting hepatitis B from contaminated NHS blood transfusion— Ex gratia scheme supporting those contracting hepatitis C or HIV from unscreened contaminated blood supplied by NHS— Scheme not including those with hepatitis B since NHS blood screened for such virus— Whether those infected with hepatitis B in relevantly similar position to those infected with hepatitis C or HIV— Whether exclusion from scheme of those with hepatitis B justified—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 14, Pt II, art 1