04-Sep-2011
A 25 year old woman is suing one of Australia’s most respected obstetricians for her own birth, claiming her delivery was negligent because he did not follow her mother’s wish for a caesarean. Halina Gillett has launched action against Professor Jeffrey Robinson in the Supreme Court, arguing he breached his duty of care during her birth in a Newcastle hospital in October 1985. Halina was induced at 37 weeks and suffers from Erb’s palsy, which she claims was the result of a forceps delivery (her mother had requested a caesarean).
