Ostick v Wandsworth Health Authority

[1995] LS Law Med 338

MAYOR'S AND CITY OF LONDON COURT

and Mr Recorder SEROTA

Limitation — Medical negligence action — Date of knowledge (actual or constructive) — Plaintiff patient not pushing for explanation on grounds that it would compromise medical treatment which she was receiving — Whether sufficient for plaintiff to know that she had received an injury, and that injury had not healed — Whether necessary for plaintiff also to know that there was causative link between treatment or lack of treatment and injury — Whether plaintiff justified in waiting to see if her treatment was successful before seeking advice