Hearings
Australia (NSW)
19 Jan 1971 [1971] AC 458; [1971] 2 WLR 441; [1971] 1 All ER 694, PC
Distillers Co (Biochemicals) Ltd v Thompson
Subject Matter
JURISDICTION — 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 mère — Failure to warn mother of drug's dangerous qualities — Whether plaintiff's cause of action against manufacturers arose within jurisdiction — Common Law Procedure Act 1899, s 18 (4) (a)
[1971] AC 458; [1971] 2 WLR 441; [1971] 1 All ER 694, PC
NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Child, unborn — 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 mère — 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)
[1971] AC 458; [1971] 2 WLR 441; [1971] 1 All ER 694, PC