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What legal principle was established in Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball?
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What can be established from Balfour v Balfour?
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Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee (transcript)
During the course of electro-convulsive therapy [E.C.T.] treatment administered to him at the defendants’ mental hospital, the plaintiff, a voluntary patient, sustained bilateral “stove-in” fractures of the acetabula. E.C.T. treatment consisted in the passing of an electric current through the brain of the patient which, when given unmodified, i.e., without...
