Venner v. North East Essex Area Health Authority and Another, 19 February 1987.
The plaintiff brought a negligence suit against the defendant physician and health authority after she became pregnant subsequent to the performance on her of a sterilization. The Court dismissed the suit, ruling that the physician's advice that the plaintiff quit taking birth control pills one month before the sterilization in order to avoid the possibility of thrombosis was justified and that the physician had also advised her to abstain from sex or have her husband use a condom, had asked her on the morning of the operation if there was any chance that she was pregnant, and had told her that the sterilization would not terminate any pregnancy.
D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005193:Family Planning Services; D007603:Jurisprudence; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive; D006113:United Kingdom
Court Decision; Developed Countries; Europe; Family Planning; Medical Liability--legal aspects; Northern Europe; Sterilization, Sexual--legal aspects; United Kingdom