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Case Report: (A) (A Child by her mother and Litigation Friend) v Guy's & St Thomas Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Antonia Jones, Stewarts Law

26/02/14. The Claimant was born on 29 January 1996. In March of 2011 she brought proceedings alleging that she had sustained brain damage during her mother’s labour as a consequence of breaches of duty on the part of the Defendant. In essence she alleged that she had suffered from chronic partial hypoxia, probably due to cord compression, during labour; that from 20.00 hours the hypoxia worsened; and that there was a failure to recognise the deteriorating CTG trace and to heed the thick meconium and reduced foetal movements the mother reported a few days before labour commenced. There was thus a failure to deliver before she sustained...

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