HIV Haemophilia Litigation

rdf:langString HIV Haemophilia Litigation

rdf:langString HIV Haemophilia Litigation

rdf:langString center

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rdf:langString [1989] E N. 2111

rdf:langString [1990] 140 NLJR 1349

rdf:langString [1990] 41 BMLR 171

rdf:langString [1990] EWCA Civ J0920-1

rdf:langString AMcG002 v Central Birmingham Health Authority ,...

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rdf:langString AIDS

rdf:langString Blood products

rdf:langString HIV

rdf:langString Haemophilia

rdf:langString Negligence

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rdf:langString Tort

rdf:langString Breach of statutory duty

rdf:langString Class action

rdf:langString Contaminated blood

rdf:langString No one could doubt the sincerity of the efforts of those in the Department to protect and to assist the plaintiffs as patients in the National Health Service, but on the pleaded case grave errors of judgment were made. Even if there was no grave error of judgment it appears to be not in dispute that there was in fact a failure to protect the plaintiffs from the danger of using blood products, whether imported or supplied in this country, which were infected.

rdf:langString The HIV Haemophilia Litigation [1990] 41 BMLR 171, [1990] 140 NLJR 1349 (CA), [1989] E N. 2111, also known as AMcG002, and HHL, was a legal claim by 962 plaintiffs, mainly haemophiliacs (but also their wives, partners and children), who were infected with HIV as a result of having been treated with blood products in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The first central defendants were the then Department of Health, with other defendants being the Licensing Authority of the time, (MCA), the CSM (the Committee on the Safety of Medicines), the CBLA (Central Blood Laboratories Authority), and the regional health authorities of England and Wales. In total, there were 220 defendants in the action. The litigation commenced around April 1989 and by 7 July 1989, at least 300 plaintiffs had joined the action. Within four months another 300 haemophiliacs had joined the action, however, by this time, (November 1989) 163 haemophiliacs had already developed full-blown AIDS and 107 had died. There was an initial deadline of 2 February 1990 imposed, however this was extended in order to permit 200 haemophiliac children to sign up to the action.