Medical Consent in UK Law
- Re T (an Adult) (Consent to Medical Treatment)
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Re F (Mental Patient: Sterilisation); F v West Berkshire HA
... ... answer was that its decision might involve delicate questions of medical evidence. But it appears to me to be quite unnecessary to decide this ... he so makes to him should be kept secret, unless with his consent (for it is his privilege, and not the privilege of the confidential ... ...
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Re J (A Minor)
... ... In Re "J" (A Minor) (Medical Treatment) [1992] EWCA Civ J0710-1 ... The Master of The ... those reports, J.'s arms were not encased in plaster without her consent. It was done to prevent her giving way to a compulsive wish to injure ... ...
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Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
... ... Intervener (General Medical Council) ... Andrew Smith QC ... (Instructed by GMC ... to the contrary, that a patient's right to decide whether to consent to the treatment was so obvious that no prudent medical practitioner could ... ...
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Airedale NHS Trust v Bland
... ... In the eyes of the medical world and of the law a person is not clinically dead so long as the brain ... terms: "that despite the inability of the defendant to consent thereto the plaintiff and the responsible attending physicians:� ... ...
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Sidaway (A.P.) v Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudesley Hospital Health Authority and Others
... ... listened with great care to a substantial and complex volume of medical evidence and delivered a meticulous and detailed judgment, and after two ... Sidaway consented to the operation. She signed the usual consent form, in which she declared that the nature and purpose of the operation ... ...
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Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority
... ... make arrangements for the giving of advice on contraception, the medical examination of persons seeking advice on contraception for the purpose of ... given to girls, not merely under 16 but well under 16, without the consent or even the knowledge of parents, not unnaturally provoked much concern ... ...
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Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation)
... ... 11 The prognosis for Mary ... 12 The medical literature ... 13 The parents' views ... 14 The nature ... of autonomy and the consequence of an adult patient's refusal to consent to treatment ... 3 Treatment of the incompetent adult ... ...
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R (Wilkinson) v Broadmoor Hospital
... ... John Wilkinson Appellant and The Responsible Medical Officer Broadmoor Hospital First Respondent The ... S.63 of the Act provides: "63. The consent of a patient shall not be required for any medical treatment given to him ... ...
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Masterman-Lister v Brutton; Masterman-Lister v Jewell
... ... It took some time to gather together the medical reports and the information in relation to financial loss, so the ... to prevent the amputation of his infected leg without his written consent, and at 292 Thorpe J said – "For the patient offered ... ...
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