Medical Consent in UK Law
- CONSENT TO MEDICAL PROCEDURES ON MINORS
- “Proper Medical Purpose”: Reviewing Consent and the Medical Exemption to Offences Against the Person
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‘It is Not for Me to Say Whether Consent Was Given or Not’: Forensic Medical Examiners’ Construction of ‘Neutral Reports’ in Rape Cases
Attrition rate studies have outlined the role the ‘real rape’ stereotype plays in prosecutor decisions concerning the progression of rape cases through the criminal justice system. According to the...
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Informed Consent and Medical Paternalism: A Prominent Shift in the Paradigm of the Doctor-Patient relationship
Autonomy, or the right to decide for oneself, is synonymous with human dignity and are the foundational pillars of human rights. While autonomy in itself is a daedalian notion that fleshes out into...
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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...... ... Nahide Basri* ... ABSTRACT ... 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 fundamental shift from medical paternalism ... ...
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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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Informed Consent and End-of-Life Decisions: Notes of Comparative Law
Informed consent for medical treatment is often said to be a legal issue which is as much discussed as little understood. This article develops an analysis of the concept of informed consent partic...... ... CONSENT AND ENDOFLIFE DECISIONS: NOTES OF COMPARATIVE LAWC C*ABSTRAC TInformed consent for medical treatment is oen said to be a legal issue which is as much discussed a s little understood. is a rticle develops an analysis of the concept ... ...
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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...... ... *The law in England and Wales governing both the provision of medical care in thecase of adults with incapacity and the provision of care and ... Theadult with incapacity has no competence either to consent to or to refuse medicaltreatment but the law provides no statutory ... ...
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Intersexuality and the ‘Right to Bodily Integrity’
In 2013, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed a resolution on ‘children’s right to bodily integrity’. In the resolution, concerns were expressed for about practices carried ou...... ... practices carried out on children without their formal consent. Among these practices, ... a common framework for the evaluation of all invasive medical and surgical ... ...
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Covert research and adult protection and safeguarding: an ethical dilemma?
Purpose: – This paper aims to consider the contentious issue of covert research in studying the social contexts of vulnerable groups. It explores its potential utility in areas where overt strategi...... ... or denied; and examines and problematises the issue of participant consent.Design/methodology/approach – Using a literature-based review and ... theDeclaration of Helsinki in 1964, Article 5 stating that in:[y] medical research on human subjects, considerations related to the wellbeing of the ... ...
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