Reibl v Hughes
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reibl-v-hughes-254-15354301
title:
Reibl v Hughes
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Reibl v Hughes [1980] 2 S.C.R. 880 is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on negligence, medical malpractice, informed consent, the duty to warn, and causation. The case settled the issue of when a physician may be sued for battery and when it is more appropriate to sue the doctor in negligence. The Court wrote unanimously that "unless there has been misrepresentation or fraud to secure consent to the treatment, a failure to disclose the attendant risks, however serious, should go
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Supreme Court of Canada case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reibl_v_Hughes
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2023-05-21T02:06:50Z
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