Obstetrician must defend negligence claim 27 years after birth
Statute of limitations has passed, but the negligence claim should go ahead because the mother only realised the doctor might be liable three years ago, judge finds.
A retired obstetrician will have to defend a negligence claim over a breech birth in 1996, after a court found his patient was not aware she could sue him until a chance encounter with a stranger two years ago.
Three weeks before her son was born, an ultrasound was taken showing that he was presenting as a footling breech.
