Read the full judgment text of HCMP 001950/1989 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 February 1990.
1. In April and May 1989 the coroner, Mr. H.M. Sinclair, conducted an enquiry, pursuant to the Coroners Ordinance Cap. 14 (the Ordinance), into the untimely and unhappy death of Mrs. Shirley Ann Boyde. It is, I think, widely known that Mrs Boyde was having what was a relatively routine operation at Canossa Hospital on 14th January 1989 to reduce a fracture of her ankle. For this purpose she was given a general anaesthetic by the anaesthetist, Dr. Michael John Bascombe. Unfortunately, the hospita