January 1997Court Decisionter Neuzen v. KornThis retrial of the civil suit of Ms. Kobe ter Neuzen against Dr. Gerald Korn had been ordered by the Supreme Court of Canada, which in October 1995 upheld Dr. Korn's successful appeal of a 1991 judgment against him for artificially inseminating Ms. ter Neuzen with sperm infected with HIV (Canadian Bioethics Report, October 1995). The decision in the retrial was rendered by a B.C. Supreme Court jury in November 1996. It found in favour of Dr. Korn on the grounds that so little was known about the transmission of HIV in 1985 when the insemination of Ms. ter Neuzen took place that negligence could not be proven.Next >> Publications Previous << Legislative Activity Return > Contents |