Conjoined Twins in UK Law
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Square Pegs in Round Holes: The Dilemma of Conjoined Twins and Individual Rights
The judgment in the English Court of Appeal case of Re A ( Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) highlights forcefully the highly individualistic and abstract assumptions that commonly shape the de...
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Of Shipwrecked Sailors, Unborn Children, Conjoined Twins and Hijacked Airplanes—Taking Human Life and the Defence of Necessity
Necessity is not a defence to murder. This principle has been repeated ever since R v Dudley and Stephens. Behind the arguments put forward in the debate lie the sanctity of life, the idea that one...
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Necessity as a Justification in Re A (Children)
In criminal law theory, it is common to distinguish between the defence of necessity as a justification and the defence of necessity as an excuse. However, it is sometimes said that English law doe......... Re A (Children) the Court of Appeal permitted the separation of conjoined twins although the separation would lead to the immediate death of one of ......
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FOUCAULT'S MONSTERS AND THE CHALLENGE OF LAW by ANDREW N. SHARPE
...... comparison), has handled three forms of being ± transsexuals, conjoined twins, and human/animal hybrids ± Sharpe is also presenting an argument ......
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Contributors
...... 13 – 37 and ‘Square Pegs in Round Holes: The Dilemma of Conjoined Twins and Individual Rights’ ( 2001 ) 10 ( 4 ) Social and Legal ......
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Necessity and murder
This article argues that there is an alternative and hitherto unarticulated defence of necessity latent in the case law which could be a defence to murder....... Consistent with Re A In Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) , 16 a hospital sought a declaration that it ......
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Elizabeth Wicks, The Right to Life and Conflicting Interests, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, 288 pp, hb £50.00.
...... to demonstrate what I mean by this: in the discussion of the conjoined twins’ case of Re A (children) (conjoined twins: surgical Reviews © ......
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Necessity: Supply of Cannabis for Medical Purpose
...... issues that arose in the tragiccase of Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Medical Treatment) (No. 1) [2000]4 All ER 961, CA. In a judgment ......
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Index
......MUNRO, VANESSA E., Square Pegs in Round Holes: The Dilemma of Conjoined Twins and Individual. Rights, 10(4) 459–482. OMEJE, KENNETH, Sexual ......
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Why Doctors Need Not Fear Prosecution for Gender-Related Abortions
This article examines whether criminal liability can arise in respect of abortions which are said to be gender related. Recent claims of abortions performed on the grounds of gender have raised que......... example of the use of necessity as a defence is the case of the conjoined twins, Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Medical T reatment) (No. 1) . 18 ......
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