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Goliath v Member of the Executive Council for Health, Eastern Cape (085/2014) [2014] ZASCA 182

Goliath v Member of the Executive Council for Health, Eastern Cape (085/2014) [2014] ZASCA 182
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27th November 2014

By: Shannon de Ryhove
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Summary: Delict – medical negligence – surgical swab left in patient – inappropriate to resort to piecemeal processes of reasoning – only one enquiry – whether plaintiff has discharged the onus of proving on a balance of probabilities the negligence averred against the defendant – whether maxim res ipsa loquitur should be jettisoned from our vocabulary.

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