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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Patient Autonomy, Resource Allocation, and Consent to Treatment: An Analysis of the NHS Constitution's Commitment to Patient-Centred Care within English Medical Law
This article analyses how far the NHS considers patient autonomy within English medical law, examining autonomy, resource allocation and consent to treatment. This essay argues that, while the NHS ...
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Court‐Ordered Caesarian Sections: In Whose Interests?
... ... a caesarian 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 ... lie’ and, in the opinion of Mrs S’s medical advisors, there was the gravest risk that her ... ...
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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 removal to a new ... ...
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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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Index to Volume 62, 1999
... ... 620Equal Pay Directive 75/117 620Equal Treatment Directive 76/207/EEC 436European Convention on ... ),Re (1994) 126, 597C (detention: medical treatment),Re (1997) 595CBS/Sony Hong Kong Ltd v ... Police (1996) 913T (an adult: consent to medical treatment),Re (1992) 117, 591TSB ... ...
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Recognition of Religious Advisor Privilege in Canada's Supreme Court
... ... a caesarian 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 ... lie’ and, in the opinion of Mrs S’s medical advisors, there was the gravest risk that her ... ...
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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 thecase of adults with incapacity and the provision of care and treatment for mentaldisorder presents serious problems for ... incapacity has no competence either to consent to or to refuse medicaltreatment but the law ... ...
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Court‐Authorised Caesarean Sections — The End of a Trend?
... ... on apatient without the patient’s consent. Even though the facts of the various ... ) 3 All ER 673.2Re S (Adult: Refusal of Treatment) [1992] Fam 123.3 See Re L (An Adult: ... vCH [1996] 1 FCR 753.4Re MB (An Adult: Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FCR 541 ... The factsMs MB, ... ...
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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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