In 1996, the Appellant applied for employment as a cabin attendant with South African Airways (SAA). At the end of the selection process, he was found to be a suitable candidate for employment. He was then subject to a medical examination, which found him clinically fit and thus suitable for employment. However, a blood test …Read more

The case was brought by BT on behalf of herself and on behalf of the estate of her late husband, AT, against the defendant, a general practitioner, who was AT’s doctor from 26 November 1991 to 22 January 1993. The case arose as a result of the defendant’s alleged negligent failure to diagnose AT’s HIV …Read more

In accordance with s 1(c) of the First Schedule of the Medical Practitioners Act, 1991, the Guyana Medical Association, of which the applicant was the President, was requested by the Minister of Health to submit names of nominees for appointment to the Medical Council under a consultation process. Subsequently, the applicant requested reasons for the …Read more

The sixteen petitioners responded to a notification in the Government Gazette calling for applications for training as Assistant Medical Practitioners (AMP). All the petitioners possessed the stipulated qualifications, submitted applications in the terms of the notification and successfully sat the examination qualifying them for the training. However, before the final stage of the process, which involves …Read more

In July 1980 the appellant, who was 12 years old at the time, was struck on the head by the bag of a schoolmate and collapsed. The appellant was seen by a general practitioner who referred him to Western General Hospital, the first respondent, where he was placed under the care of Mr. Jensen, the …Read more

Martha Susana Schauman de Scaiola filed a suit against Dr. Juan Manuel Padrón and the Regional Hospital of Río Gallegos of the Government of the Province of Santa Cruz to hold them responsible for her son’s death, due to medical malpractice. She claimed liquidated damages due to her suffering caused from the death of her …Read more

The appellant was a medical practitioner whose registration was suspended on several occasions following decisions of the Health Committee of the General Medical Council (“Committee”) that her fitness to practice was impaired by reason of her mental condition. In 1998, when the option of imposing an indefinite suspension was available to the Committee under section …Read more

The applicant was a 17-year old Turkish national of Kurdish origin girl who lived with her parents in a village in south-east Turkey. Since 1985 serious disturbances had raged in this part of the country between the security forces and the members of a Kurdish separatist party. Turkey claimed that these had resulted in the deaths …Read more

Mr. Francois X, a pharmacist practicing in the Rosny-sou-Bois commercial center, along with his employer, the Plus Pharmacie association, requested the annulment of decree no 96-531 of June 14 1996. The decree related to advertisement of medications and other products for medical use. The decree modifies the public health code to insert a new article …Read more