ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date15 January 2015
Date15 January 2015
Docket NumberSuit No 467 of 2012 (Summons No 4264 of 2014)
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
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1 cases
  • Acb v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd and Others
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 22 March 2017
    ...Baby P should not ever have to grow up thinking that her very existence was a mistake” (see ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd and others [2015] 2 SLR 218 at [16] (“the Judgment”)). We now stand at the crossroads. The question which was presented to us for determination was whether the Appellant......
6 books & journal articles
  • THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INTERESTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...Siu Chiu J in the High Court implicitly recognised the validity of claims for wrongful birth where a child was born with disabilities. 11[2015] 2 SLR 218. In ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd[2015] 2 SLR 218, which involved somewhat unusual facts, Choo Han Teck J held that a claim by the mother......
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...as a third party to the proceedings. What is lost when a contract is breached? 12.164 The difficult case of ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd[2015] 2 SLR 218 involving a breach of a contract to provide in-vitro fertilisation services was heard by the High Court in the early part of 2015. Part o......
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...from extending the tort to civil proceedings generally. Negligence Wrongful birth and upkeep expenses 26.46 ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd[2015] 2 SLR 218 (‘ACB’) was probably one of the most-discussed cases in Singapore last year. Due to the negligence of the defendants, a couple who underw......
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...Pte Ltd [2017] 1 SLR 918 at [53]. 129 ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd [2017] 1 SLR 918 at [25]–[100]. 130 ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd [2015] 2 SLR 218 at [15]. 131 ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd [2017] 1 SLR 918 at [35]–[37]. This was, admittedly, with reference to the claim against the resp......
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