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Ecila Henderson (by her Litigation Friend) v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | 
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| Issue:  | 
Whether recovery of tortious damages flowing from a community patient killing her mother in circumstances of a negligent failure to recognise a deterioration in her condition was precluded by public policy when responsibility for the killing was diminished. | 
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| Court:  | 
Court of Appeal | 
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| Reference:    | 
B3/2017/0199 | 
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| Neutral Citation:    | 
[2018] EWCA Civ 1841 | 
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| Judge(s):  | 
Sir Terence Etherton MR, Sir Ernest Ryder SPT, Macur LJ | 
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| Date:  | 
3 August 2018 |