title: Worster v. City and Hackney Area Health Authority, 19 June 1987.
abstract: After undergoing a sterilization at the defendant Health Authority, the plaintiff gave birth to a son.  She sought damages from the defendant charging negligence in its failure to warn her that there was a small possibility that the sterilization would not be successful.  Specifically, she argued that her signing of a consent form containing the acknowledgement that the sterilization could not be reversed amounted to a representation that she could have no more children and that this representation was made negligently since there was no qualification about lack of success.  The High Court of the UK rejected this argument, holding that the consent form was not a representation that sterilization was certain, but merely consent to the operation with an acknowledgement that the intended effect was that she and her husband have no more children.
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005298:Fertility; D007258:Informed Consent; D007603:Jurisprudence; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011275:Pregnancy, Unwanted; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Court Decision; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Europe; Family Planning; Fertility; Informed Consent--legal aspects; Medical Liability; Northern Europe; Population; Population Dynamics; Pregnancy, Unwanted--legal aspects; Reproductive Behavior; Sterilization, Sexual--legal aspects; United Kingdom