Facts
- The claimant had an ambulance called upon suffering an athsma attack
- The ambulance did not arrive for 40 minutes, by which time the claimant had suffered respiratory arrest
Issue
- Was the ambulance service liable for being unjustifiably slow in responding
Decision
Reasoning
- Despite conflicting priorities, it was foreseeable that unjustified delay would foreseeably suffer further injury following the acceptance of responsibility by the service
- If justification had occurred in good time, the claimant could have been driven to hospital