{"id":15,"date":"2003-10-03T21:31:49","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-10-03T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2003-10-03T21:31:49","slug":"getting-it-wrong-can-be-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Getting it wrong can be expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tort &#8211; damages &#8211; quantum<br \/>\nBatchelor v Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon Health Authority. <\/p>\n<p>30 September 2003. <br \/>\nBaby suffered brain damage by suffocating during birth. The mother&#8217;s labour had to be induced, and during the birth negligent medical staff failed to realise the claimant&#8217;s mother was experiencing difficulties. As a result of the suffocation the claimant now suffers from cerebral palsy, severe learning difficulties and epilepsy.<br \/>\nThe hospital admitted liability and agreed to pay a settlement of \u00a33,400,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tort &#8211; damages &#8211; quantum Batchelor v Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon Health Authority. 30 September 2003. Baby suffered brain damage by suffocating during birth. The mother&#8217;s labour had to be induced, and during the birth negligent medical staff failed to realise the claimant&#8217;s mother was experiencing difficulties. As a result of the suffocation the claimant now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}