Professional Ethics in UK Law

  • Airedale NHS Trust v Bland
    • House of Lords
    • 04 Febrero 1993
    ... ... be compelled either to act contrary to the principles of medical ethics established by his professional body or to risk a prosecution for murder ... ...
  • Jones v Kaney
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 Marzo 2011
    ... ... a claim for breach of a duty of care brought against a professional expert witness by his client before Palmer v Durnford Ford [1992] QB ... them, and to comply with any relevant professional code of ethics. However when they are instructed to give or prepare evidence for the ... ...
  • Re J (A Minor)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 Julio 1992
    ... ... As it is put by the Department of Health Guidelines for Ethics Committee (August 1991): "The giving of consent by a ... The report in paragraph 480 records that all the professional bodies which gave evidence recommended that patients aged between 16 and ... ...
  • Ridehalgh v Horsefield; Watson v Watson (Wasted Costs Orders)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Enero 1994
    ... ... liable to disciplinary proceedings at the suit of their professional body and to a range of penalties which include fines, suspension from ... ...
  • Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 11 Marzo 2015
    ... ... this evidence was given in the context of a discussion about "professional practice in the matter of advising of the risks of shoulder dystocia, ... Thus, as Jonathan Herring puts it in Medical Law and Ethics (2012), 4 th ed, p 170), "the issue is not whether enough information ... ...
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Mayo 2004
    ... ... that it mattered not whether therapy was obtained by means of professional medical input or by alternative means such as group counselling or by ... provide 'reliable and precise' information in accordance with the ethics of journalism." ... 109 There ... ...
  • R (on the application of Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (on the application of AM) v DPP
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 Junio 2014
    ... ... risk any consequences from the point of view of the code of professional medical conduct" – para 11. At para 62, the court observed that there ... the decision in Bland , the House of Lords Committee on Medical Ethics, after receiving evidence, reported that "[a]s far as assisted suicide is ... ...
  • Meek v Fleming
    • Court of Appeal
    • 26 Junio 1961
    ... ... If one leaves aside for the moment any question of ethics, the hazards of such a course were extremely great With so many police ... there said: "This case raises an important question of professional duty. I do not doubt that if a favorable decision has been obtained by any ... ...
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Octubre 2002
    ... ... it matters not whether therapy is obtained by means of professional medical input or by alternative means such as group counselling or as here ... provide "reliable and precise" information in accordance with the ethics of journalism." ... 64 In our judgment, ... ...
  • Lee v The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain
    • Court of Appeal
    • 04 Abril 1952
    ... ... Council to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect, the General Council may, if they think fit, direct the registrar ... question was not primarily one of construction but of professional ethics. In ( Maclean v. The Workers Union 1929, 1 Chancery, page 602 ) Mr ... ...
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