Geoffrey Hardaker v Newcastle Health Authority & anor

[2001] Lloyd's Rep Med 512

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice Stanley BURNTON

Diver suffering “bends” — Hospital not providing decompression chamber — Resources — Duties pending transfer to police decompression chamber — System of transfer — Police providing decompression chamber without oxygen facilities — Extent of duty voluntarily assumed — Delay in transfer causing loss of opportunity of better outcome of treatment — Lost chance less than 50 per cent not amounting to damage