Hearings
England & Wales
27 Jan 2005 [2005] UKHL 2; [2005] 2 AC 176; [2005] 2 WLR 268; [2005] 4 All ER 812, HL(E)
Gregg v Scott
Subject Matter
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
Appellate History
Gregg v Scott [2002] EWCA Civ 1471, CA
Decision of the Court of Appeal affirmed
Gregg v Scott [2005] UKHL 2; [2005] 2 AC 176; [2005] 2 WLR 268; [2005] 4 All ER 812, HL(E)