by VDT Attorneys | May 29, 2024 | Medical negligence, Prescription
Prescription is in most cases a relatively straightforward question to answer. You have three years from when the debt (cause of action) became due to institute the legal action, and if not, the claim is deemed to have prescribed. But, when dealing with medical...
by VDT Attorneys | May 29, 2023 | Damages, Informed Consent, Medical negligence
As early as 1923, in one of the earliest cases heard by the then Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division, in the case of Stoffberg v Elliot, our Courts have held that “[a] patient by entering a hospital does not submit himself to such surgical treatment as the doctors...
