Legal Principles – Nigerian LawCompass

MEDICAL LAW Important

MEDICAL LAW – Professional Discipline – Infamous Conduct – Standard Required

"A charge of infamous conduct must be of a serious infraction of acceptable standard of behaviour or ethics of the profession. It connotes conduct so disreputable and morally reprehensible as...

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MEDICAL LAW – Duty of Medical Practitioner – No Duty to Transfer Patient Who Refuses Treatment on Religious Grounds

"There is no duty, contrary to what was suggested in the particulars of the first count, on the respondent to transfer the patient to another hospital merely because she had...

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MEDICAL LAW – Duty of Medical Practitioner – Patient’s Refusal of Consent – Effect

"Since the patient's relationship with the practitioner is based on consensus, it follows that the choice of an adult patient with a sound mind to refuse informed consent to medical...

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MEDICAL LAW – Professional Conduct – Charge of Infamous Conduct – Sufficiency of Particulars

"When, therefore, the respondent was charged with infamous conduct and particulars were given in the charge of the acts or omission alleged to amount to infamous conduct that, in my...

Legal Definitions Important

MEDICAL LAW – Professional Conduct – Infamous Conduct – Meaning and Scope

"The term infamous conduct is wide. It is futile, in the absence of statutory definition limiting its ambit to restrict its meaning within the confines of a code of ethics......