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23 May 2011
Last updated at 05:26 ET
A woman has won more than £6m in damages against a plastic surgeon who she said "played God" with her life.
Penny Johnson, from Godstone, Surrey, brought the High Court case against Le Roux Fourie who she said carried out "experimental surgery" in 2003.
The businesswoman said she suffered nerve damage in a facelift, which led to her financial and IT consultancy business going into administration.
Mr Fourie admitted liability but denied the surgery was experimental.
At the High Court, sitting in London, Mrs Johnson asked Mr Justice Owen to award her a proportion of the £54m she said was her potential loss, as a 50% shareholder, when Bishop Cavanagh Ltd failed in 2009.
She said the stress of the litigation had made her condition worse.
The judge gave his ruling in the case on Monday, awarding her £6,190,884.92.
During the hearing, Mrs Johnson said her face was constantly contracting.
'Unrealistic and deluded' "I don't sleep and I have a permanent buzzing around my eye which can be so intense that I can't think about anything," she said.
Alain Choo Choy, QC for Mr Fourie said his client put the potential business loss at only £9m.
He said the claim that Mrs Johnson's company lost out on a series of lucrative contracts was unrealistic and deluded.
It was accepted that her injuries restricted her ability to work to some extent but the business had failed for unrelated commercial and economic reasons.
During her absence, the company was managed by her husband, Peter, with whom she now owns another business, BC Direct.
The bulk of the damages award relates to lost earnings, both past and future.
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Penny Johnson, from Godstone, Surrey, brought the High Court case against Le Roux Fourie who she said carried out "experimental surgery" in 2003.
The businesswoman said she suffered nerve damage in a facelift, which led to her financial and IT consultancy business going into administration.
Mr Fourie admitted liability but denied the surgery was experimental.
At the High Court, sitting in London, Mrs Johnson asked Mr Justice Owen to award her a proportion of the £54m she said was her potential loss, as a 50% shareholder, when Bishop Cavanagh Ltd failed in 2009.
She said the stress of the litigation had made her condition worse.
The judge gave his ruling in the case on Monday, awarding her £6,190,884.92.
During the hearing, Mrs Johnson said her face was constantly contracting.
'Unrealistic and deluded' "I don't sleep and I have a permanent buzzing around my eye which can be so intense that I can't think about anything," she said.
Alain Choo Choy, QC for Mr Fourie said his client put the potential business loss at only £9m.
He said the claim that Mrs Johnson's company lost out on a series of lucrative contracts was unrealistic and deluded.
It was accepted that her injuries restricted her ability to work to some extent but the business had failed for unrelated commercial and economic reasons.
During her absence, the company was managed by her husband, Peter, with whom she now owns another business, BC Direct.
The bulk of the damages award relates to lost earnings, both past and future.
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