Read the full judgment text of HCPI 000231/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 November 2000.
1. The plaintiff, aged 38 at the time of the hearing, was born on 14 February, 1962. On 14 October, 1996 he visited a clinic operated by the 2nd defendant, a medical practitioner for treatment of headache and flue-like symptoms and was administered with an intramuscular injection in the left buttock by the 2nd defendant's nurse, the 1st defendant. The injection unhappily caused injury to the plaintiff's left sciatic nerve and he brought suit to recover damages for loss and damage. Interlocutory