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This article reveals that an Austrian court has ordered that a gynaecologist must pay child support for a child with Down's syndrome because the doctor failed to adequately warn the mother about the possibility that her baby would be born disabled. This precedent setting ruling has become very controversial in the medical community.

The article focuses on a controversial decision by a Swiss court in which an HIV-positive woman was asked to disclose all her sexual partners and was given a suspended one-year prison sentence. In an effort to combat the spread of the disease, the court ordered the woman to report in future the names of any further sexual partners. Details of the trial are discussed.