title: DOCTORS' LIABILITY TO THE PATIENT'S RELATIVES IN GENETIC MEDICINE: ABC V St George's Healthcare NHS trust[2015] EWHC 1394 (QB).
abstract: This comment analyses the recent High Court's decision in ABC v St George's Healthcare NHS Trust. In this case, the court struck out a claim brought by a patient's daughter against her father's doctors for their failure to warn her of his hereditary disease. The claimant argued that the doctors' failure caused her harm and violated her rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. It is argued in this comment that the judge should have accepted the claimant's application.
authors.affiliation: School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel School of Law, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK rg165@le.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Roy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gilbar
authors.affiliation: Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Foster
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D030881:Disclosure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017007:Duty to Warn / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004739:England; D005062:European Union; D005192:Family Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005817:Genetic Counseling / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D006816:Huntington Disease / Q000235:genetics; D016365:Liability, Legal; D010820:Physicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence
keywords: Confidentiality; Disclosure; Genetic information; Liability; Relatives