Our novel idea is to reorientate maternity malpractice litigation from a normative assumption that intervention is always beneficial for mother and baby, to one based on human rights, evidence and amelioration

We hypothesise that this change will result in a decrease in iatrogenic harms associated with caesarean section inappropriately undertaken due to fear of litigation.

Our team includes members with expertise in: the law (Shammana, University of Hyderabad and Erdman, Dalhousie University, Canada); obstetrics/medicine (Torloni UNIFESP-EPM, Brazil, and Shammana); midwifery (Downe, UCLan UK) public and global health (Betran, WHO) and behavioural change (Altieri, WHO).

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