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Medical Negligence: Non-Patient and Third Party Claims, by Rachael Mulheron. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, xlix + 391 + (bibliography and index) 27pp (£70 hardback). ISBN: 978-0-7546-4697-6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jo Samanta*
Affiliation:
Leicester De Montfort Law School, Leicester

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References

31 [1985] AC 871.

32 Ibid, at 890.

33 [1990] 2 AC 605 (HL).

34 See, for example, the comments of Lord Oliver in Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police[1992] 1 AC 310.

35 General Medical Council Confidentiality: Disclosing Information about Serious Communicable Diseases (London: GMC, 2009).

36 See for example, McIvor, C Third Party Liability in Tort (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006)Google Scholar.

37 See, for example, the duty owed by officers in Home Office v Dorset Yacht Company Ltd[1970] AC 1004 (HL).

38 See, for example, Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd[2002] UKHL 22; [2003] 1 AC (HL) and Chester v Afshar[2004] UKHL 41; [2005] 1 AC 134 (HL).

39 Lowns v Woods (1995) 36 NSWLR 344 (SC).

40 33 Cal App 3d 275; 17 Cal 3d 425.

41 See also Mitchell v Glasgow CC[2009] UKHL 11; [2009] 1 AC 874 (HL); Osman v UK (1998) 5 EHRR 293; [1999] 1 FLR 193 (ECtHR); and Smith v Chief Constable of Sussex Police; Van Colle v Chief Constable of Hertfordshire[2008] UKHL 50; [2009] 1 AC 225 (HL).

42 Above n 39.

43 [1992] 1 AC 310.

44 The Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Litigation, Plaintiffs v United Kingdom Medical Research Council (1996) 54 BMLR 8 QB; Johnston v NEI International Combustion Ltd; Rothwell v Chemical and Insulating Co Ltd; Topping v Benchtown Ltd (the Pleural Plaques Litigation)[2007] UKHL 39; [2008] 1 AC 281.