Diana Brahams

TL;DR: Brahms argues that a physician's responsibility to these young patients is greater than that to older girls and that the final decision on whether or not to notify parents should rest with the doctor rather than the patient.

TL;DR: Brahams notes that although the judge's remarks should assist physicians treating mentally incapacitated adults, the law in this area is unsatisfactory, and this deficiency in the law might be remedied by restoring parens patriae jurisdiction to the Lord Chancellor.

TL;DR: In this article, no cause for action was found for infant McKay's wrongful birth claim against her mother's physician and a health facility whose alleged negligence in detecting Mrs. McKay's rubella and advising an abortion resulted in the plaintiff's being born handicapped.

TL;DR: In Thake v Maurice, a British court ruled that a surgeon was liable for failing to warn a couple of the possibility of returned fertility after a vasectomy, it was held that the birth of a healthy baby was not always a blessing and damages could be awarded for an unwanted birth.