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A Step Too Far? Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14.
- Source :
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Medical law review [Med Law Rev] 2021 Aug 09; Vol. 29 (1), pp. 172-184. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This comment piece explores the decision in Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14. It argues that despite notable shifts in public policy in respect of the acceptability of surrogacy as a means of family formation in the past twenty years, the Supreme Court has taken a step too far in deciding that foreign commercial surrogacy is as widely socially accepted. This impacts on the reasonableness of any claim for damages in negligence for the costs of commercial surrogacy. It is posited that the issue of whether damages for foreign commercial surrogacy are reasonable or not will be the key battleground in future negligence cases of this type.<br /> (© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
- Subjects :
- Female
Humans
Infertility chemically induced
Pregnancy
State Medicine legislation & jurisprudence
United Kingdom
Commerce legislation & jurisprudence
Compensation and Redress legislation & jurisprudence
Liability, Legal economics
Malpractice economics
Public Policy
Surrogate Mothers legislation & jurisprudence
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1464-3790
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Medical law review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 33221917
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwaa037