Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Italy) - Corte di Cassazione

Date: 01/21/2009

Subject: The Joined Divisions of the Court of Cassation, recalling the Charter of Fundamental Rights, exclude criminal relevance with regard to the behaviour of a doctor who subjects the patient to a different surgery from the one which the patient had given his informed consent for, when the operation, performed in respect of protocols and leges artis, has been successful.

Original language: Italian

Classification: Dignity - Art. 3 Informed consent - Art. 8 Personal data: consent

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