Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kylie Weston-Scheuber

Titel

Victory for Reluctant Parents: Cattanach v Melchior

Ist Teil von

• University of New South Wales law journal, 2003-01, Vol.26 (3), p.717-726

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A 2003 High Court ruling in Australia, in the case of Cattanach v Melchior, entitling the parents of a child born due to a doctor's negligence to damages for the costs of raising the child until adulthood, is in contrast to the 2000 House of Lords decision in the McFarlane v Tayside Board of Health in the United Kingdom, which restricted such parents to claiming damages for pain and suffering and medical expenses due to the unwanted pregnancy. Such judgements seem to recognize the modern trends of people's choice to have a child and consider parents of unwanted pregnancies as deserving of compensation for damage done.