A Step Too Far? Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14.
Commerce
/ legislation & jurisprudence
Compensation and Redress
/ legislation & jurisprudence
Female
Humans
Infertility
/ chemically induced
Liability, Legal
/ economics
Malpractice
/ economics
Pregnancy
Public Policy
State Medicine
/ legislation & jurisprudence
Surrogate Mothers
/ legislation & jurisprudence
United Kingdom
Commercial surrogacy
Damages
Negligence
Public policy
Reasonableness
Journal
Medical law review
ISSN: 1464-3790
Titre abrégé: Med Law Rev
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9308945
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 Aug 2021
09 Aug 2021
Historique:
pubmed:
23
11
2020
medline:
24
8
2021
entrez:
22
11
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33221917
pii: 5998331
doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwaa037
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
172-184Informations de copyright
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