Conjoined Twins Surgical Separation 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...... ... Court of Appeal case of Re A (Conjoined Twins: Surgi- cal Separation) highlights forcefully the highly individualistic and abstract assump- ... Court of Appeal case of Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) ... The ability of rights discourse and analysis to politicize ... ...
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High Court, Family Division
... ... , most notably in Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) [2001] 2 WLR 480) ... ...
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‘Thou Shalt Not Kill; But Needst Not Strive Officiously to Keep Alive’: Further Clarification of the Law regarding Mercy Killing, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
... ... (at [1]) The conjoined appeals in this case concerned ‘ submissions ... in the case of Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) [2001] Fam 147, albeit in ... ...
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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.... ... with Re A In Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) , 16 a hospital ... ...
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Public Law and Popular Justice
Group litigation is becoming commonplace. Rules of standing have been relaxed to allow groups to bring representative actions on behalf of their members or to act ‘in the public interest’. Groups i...... ... not committed to the doctrine of separation of powers. In this context, the experiments on ... a single example, the celebrated ‘Siamese Twins’ case, involving a total re- consideration of he law with regard to surgical interventions which cause death through ... were accepted: see In re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) [2001] 2 WLR 480 ... ...
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Crossing the Rubicon on the Human Rights Ferry
... ... 75 See Re A (children) (conjoined twins: surgical separation) [2000] 4 All ER 961, ... ...
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Bodily Integrity, Embodiment, and the Regulation of Parental Choice
In this article we develop a new model of bodily integrity that we designate ‘embodied integrity’. We deploy it to argue that non‐therapeutic interventions on children should be considered within a...... ... , and so forth, prompt concern about the surgical shaping of children. However, we agree with ... , 75 concerning the proposed surgical separation of conjoined twins who would both die if not ... ...
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Who are Law's Persons? From Cheshire Cats to Responsible Subjects
What is it to be a legal person? A review of the jurisprudence of persons reveals considerable confusion about this central legal question, as well as deep intellectual divisions. To certain jurist...... ... to decide on the legality of separating conjoined twins when one would certainly be killed in the ... Brooke explained, in approving the separation of the twins, ‘the doctrine of the sanctity of ... 81 Re A (Children) Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation [2000] 4 All ER 961. 82 Ibid 1052 ... ...
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Necessity: Supply of Cannabis for Medical Purpose
... ... in the tragiccase of Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Medical Treatment) (No. 1) [2000]4 All ER ... , they had to rule on whether surgical separation of conjoinedtwins that would lead to ... ...
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Conception and the Irrelevance of the Welfare Principle
This article challenges the assumption that their future children’s welfare is a relevant consideration when deciding whether to provide a person with assisted conception services. It does not argu...... ... discord associated with parental separation that have a negative impact upon children, rather ... Although in Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation [2001] 2 WLR 480, the ... ...
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