Trial on liability and quantum of the claim of clinical negligence at Defendant’s Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital when she was 12. Sara had a pre-existing condition of cerebral palsy and had developed a progressive curvature of the lumbar spine (neuromuscular scoliosis). A correctional operation was performed on her. The scoliosis was corrected but she sustained damage to her cauda equina with consequent and permanent lower paralysis. Damage to the spinal cord is a known risk of such surgery.
Soole J
[2016] EWHC 974 (QB)
Bailii, Judiciary
England and Wales
Professional Negligence, Personal Injury
Updated: 01 November 2021; Ref: scu.563196