Consent to transfusion - Irish Blood Transfusion Service

THE LEGAL DOCTRINE OF
INFORMED CONSENT:
THE TORT OF BATTERY
Daniels v Heskin [1954] IR 73
“ All depends on the circumstances, the
character of the Patient, her health, her social
position, her intelligence, the nature of the
tissue in which the needle was embedded
Here the Patient was passing through a post
partum period in which the possibility of
nervous or mental disturbance is notorious.”