Chester V Afshar
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| Date decided | October 14, 2004 |
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| Court | Judicial functions of the House of Lords |
| Citation(s) | All ER |
| Appealed from | Court of Appeal |
| Judge sittings | Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill |
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| ID | 3052520 |
About Chester V Afshar
Chester v Afshar [2004] UKHL 41 is an important English tort law case regarding causation in a medical negligence context. The House of Lords decided that a doctor's failure to fully inform a patient of all surgery risks vitiates the need to show that harm would have been caused by the failure to inform.
