Johnson, Enid v South-East Regional Health Authority, Attorney General

1N 'THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA

IN COMMON LAW

SUIT NO. C.L. 2001lJ104

BETWEEN ENID JOHNSON CLAIMANTS

(ADMINSTRATRIX IN THE

ESTATE YORKSLADDA

JOIINSON, deceased

<I AND SOUTH-EAST REGIONAL I-1EALTI-I lS' DEFENDANT

AUTHORITY

AND THEATTORNEYGENERALOF 2ND DEFENDANT

JAMAICA

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Mr. Norman Samuels for the Claimant

Mr. John Spencer instructed by the Director of State Proceedings

For the 1" aand 2nd Defendants

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Application for 111 terim payment

Heard on 30"' October 2006 and 7"' November, 2006

MORRISON, J (Ag.)

'I'lierc is a conlesl of rack and issues belweeli the parlies hereto in so far as il relates to

ilic qucsliou ofliabiliiy Tor llie medical delerioralior~o flhc Clai~na~iMl,r . Yo~.ksladda

Johnson, since deceased.

In brief, it is the conlention of the Claimant that consequent upon his being injured in a

motor vehicle accident on 3 1 July, 1996, he was admitted to the Kingston Public

Hospital. There, he was diagnosed as suffering from the following injuries:

a) fracture of the left distal femur