Consent to Medical Treatment in UK Law
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Consent to Treatment for Transgender Youth: The Next Chapter – Bell & Anor v The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust & Ors
In September 2021, the Court of Appeal reversed the controversial decision of Quincy Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in a victory for transgender rights. At first instance, the Divisional Co...... ... could access such treatment.This note consider s the implications of the Courtof Appeal decision for the law on minors and consent to medical treatment in the transgenderhealth context.In December 2020, Keira Bell succeeded in challenging through judicialreview, the practice of the ... ...
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Court‐Ordered Caesarian Sections: In Whose Interests?
... ... section and consequential treatment could lawfully be performed upon a pregnant woman despite her refusal of consent. The case arose when Mrs S was admitted to ... medical advisors, there was the gravest risk that ... ...
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Medical Treatment — Pragmatism and the Search for Principle
... ... They sought High Court sanction both to move the child to a new treatment unit and to give medical treatment without her consent. The Decision The Court of Appeal held both that it had the power and that it should exercise it to authorise the child’s ... ...
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The Coherence of the Principle of Patient Autonomy in the English Medical Law: A Re-evaluation
By comparing and contrasting four specific areas within English medical law – informed consent, mental capacity of adults, mental capacity of children, and mental health – this essay observes a fun...... ... four specific areas within English medical law – informed consent, mental capacity of adults, mental capacity of children, and mental health ... almost absolute right to informedly consent to or refuse medical treatment, while those not qualifying as such are assisted so far as practicable in ... ...
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Recognition of Religious Advisor Privilege in Canada's Supreme Court
... ... section and consequential treatment could lawfully be performed upon a pregnant woman despite her refusal of consent. The case arose when Mrs S was admitted to ... medical advisors, there was the gravest risk that ... ...
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Religious Beliefs and Teenage Refusal of Medical Treatment
... ... K,W and H (Minors) (Medical Treatment) [1993] 1 FLR 854; Re E (A Minor) (Wardship: Medical Treatment) [1993] 1 FLR 386; Re S (A Minor) (Consent To Medical Treatment) [1994] 2 FLR 1065; Re C (Detention: Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FLR 180. 5 See G. Douglas ‘The Retreat from Gillick’ ... ...
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Autonomy, Guardianship and Mental Disorder: One Problem, Two Solutions
The law in England and Wales governing both the provision of medical care in the case of adults with incapacity and the provision of care and treatment for mental disorder presents serious problems...... ... and Wales governing both the provision of medical care in the case of adults with incapacity and e provision of care and treatment for mental disorder presents serious problems for ... incapacity has no competence either to consent to or to refuse medical treatment but the law ... ...
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Court‐Authorised Caesarean Sections — The End of a Trend?
... ... on a patient without the patient’s consent. Even though the facts of the various cases ... 2 Re S (Adult: Refusal of Treatment) [1992] Fam 123. 3 See Re L (An Adult: ... 4 Re MB (An Adult: Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FCR 541 ... The facts Ms ... ...
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Scots Law, 16- and 17-Year-Olds, and the UNCRC: Balancing Autonomy and Protection
... ... This compares with a child’s right to consent to medical treatment where an individual child is ... ...
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Index to Volume 62, 1999
... ... Equal Pay Directive 75/117 620 Equal Treatment Directive 76/207/EEC 436 European Convention on ... , Scott Committee Report (1943) 106 Medical, Nursing and Other Expenses, Law Commission ... Police (1996) 913 T (an adult: consent to medical treatment), Re (1992) 117, 591 TSB ... ...
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