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Wallace v Kam
(2013) 250 CLR 375
Key Principle
The HCA held that a doctor's failure to warn of a material risk (under Rogers v Whitaker) is causally relevant only if the patient would not have undergone the procedure had they been warned of the particular risk that eventuated.
Area of Law
tort
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