Prendergast v Sam & Dee Ltd

(1989) 1 Med LR 36

COURT OF APPEAL

Lord Justice DILLON, Lord Justice RALPH, and Lord Justice WOOLF

Medical practitioner — Negligence – Causation — Foreseeability — Doctor's bad handwriting on prescription read incorrectly by pharmacst — Daonil dispensed instead of Amoxil — Whether pharmacist should have been put on notice that something was wrong — Whether chain of causation broken — Whether reasonably foreseeable that Daonil would be prescribed