Category / Case law
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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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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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DH NHS Foundation Trust v PS [2010] EWHC 1217 (Fam)
Judgment making declarations that it is legal for an NHS Trust to forcefully sedate an incapable patient on the basis that she might not submit to surgery voluntarily or abscond from hospital…
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Yearworth et al v. North Bristol NHS Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 37
The case of Yearworth is finally beginning to attract a little bit more attention (here, here, here and here) in academic debate (with rather a lot of delay, I think). In this…
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