Ethics in UK Law

  • Airedale NHS Trust v Bland
    • House of Lords
    • 04 February 1993
    ... ... the medical profession in a case such as the present, so that a doctor would be compelled either to act contrary to the principles of medical ethics established by his professional body or to risk a prosecution for murder. As Compton J. said in Barber v. Superior Court of State of California ... ...
  • R v Somerset County Council, ex parte Fewings
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 March 1995
    ... ... The County Council must come to a decision, as the National Trust report said, "largely on the grounds of ethics, animal welfare and social considerations…." which are matters for members to decide." ... 48 I accept that animal welfare ... ...
  • An application by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)
    • Supreme Court
    • 07 June 2018
    ... ... moral principle, but rather because the issues demanded “careful consideration from the medical professionals, practitioners, families and ethics and legal experts to ensure that sufficient and proper clarity and guidance are the hallmarks of the way forward”. It was the DUP which in these ... ...
  • Airedale NHS Trust v Bland
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 09 December 1992
    ... ... 23 In this country, a discussion paper published by the Ethics Committee of the BMA in September 1992 recorded (at page 22) that there had been no prosecutions in Scotland in cases where doctors had withdrawn ... ...
  • Michelle Davis v Solitiors Regulation Authority
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 19 December 2011
    ... ... "Q. The Panel is concerned to find out why you did not consider making enquires at Professional Ethics, for instance at SRA, but if you have somebody in place within the firm to ask then this would go some way to explain why you wouldn't have done this ... ...
  • Application for Permission and Another
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 31 October 2001
    ... ... MR JUSTICE CRANE ... 438 : What is the difference then in terms of ethics or policy between the two types of nuclear replacement? ... 439 My Lord, the answer to that is that at the time ... ...
  • Upper Tribunal (Immigration and asylum chamber), 2020-08-11, [2020] UKUT 268 (IAC) (AB (preserved FtT findings; Wisniewski principles))
    • Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
    Human rights appeal. Issues of general principle. Credible evidence of the relevant offending conduct. Upper tribunal
    ... ... As a doctor involved in the ... treatment of prisoners, the appellant was bound by the Principles ... of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, ... particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and ... Detainees against Torture and Other ... ...
  • John Frederick Davies (Respondent (Plaintiff) v Land and Commercial Assets Ltd (Appellants
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 February 1983
    ... ... He said he could not have come to an agreement like that because it was contrary to his then code of professional ethics. He said that Mr. Taylor did not mention that he would only be paid if he got planning permission and if the defendants bought the site and that, as ... ...
  • Syed Irshad Raza v Krishna Chandra Sen Gupta
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 June 2007
    ... ... He says that the claimant's case was devised by his lawyer, contrary to the rules of professional ethics. He says that the claimant had discussed the will in question with his wife and agreed it. He says that the judgment was out of proportion because it ... ...
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