Author / Nils Hoppe
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Justice Cryogenically Delayed is Justice Denied?
Re JS (Disposal of Body) [2016] EWHC 2859 (Fam) This unusual and sad case concerns a court application by a 14 year old girl, JS. In 2015 she was diagnosed with a…
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Simple Lack of Courtesy or A Deeper Problem? The Law Society Gazette and Accurate Reporting.
In which a Law Society Gazette reporter silently appropriates academic writing and pretends that he conducted an interview to make his article more interesting.
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Scholars advocate thinking something through to the end! Outrage!!
See update (21 Aug 2014 2218 CET) at bottom of text. A recent amusing Twitter exchange between myself, colleagues, and a chap who writes for an online magazine reignited some thoughts…
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Medical Innovation (No. 2) Bill
There is much potential for debate about the merits, or lack thereof, of the Medical Innovation Bill (and I will not do that right now, though maybe at some other time if I get around…
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Warren v CARE and HFEA: Medico-Legal Work in an Ethical Clean Room?
The last 25 years since the inception of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (the 1990 Act, or the Act) have seen a small cluster of interesting cases on how the…
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Re AA (Essex C-Section Case)
The Essex C-Section case has attracted a fair bit of commentary. The facts: Court determines an elective caesarian, if need be using reasonable restraint, to be in the bests interests of a…
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What’s in a name? – Invoking ethics to sell yourself
Explaining ‘ethics’ to some scientists is difficult at best and impossible in some cases. The term is sometimes used by those who should be concerned about the ethics of their research as…
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How dare you criticise me. Translational research and the infallibility threshold.
Translation is the process we use to describe the transition of a (scientific) innovation from conception to deployment. The different stages of translation raise different normative questions (and the exact movement from…
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Is it wrong to use executed prisoners’ organs to treat patients?
China will phase out using executed prisoners as organ ‘donors’ in the next five years, the Guardian reports today. It would be interesting to see what the policy reasons behind this move…
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On Giubilini, Minerva and Public Perception
I have loosely followed the discussion raging (for want of a better word) on the JME blog and in some other media about Giubilini and Minerva’s article on abortion and infanticide. I…
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