Hertfordshire placenta smoothies firm ban over ‘health risk’ – BBC News
‘A company cannot process raw placentas for new mothers to eat, after a judge ruled it posed a “health risk”.’
BBC News, 16th May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: human tissue
Crohn’s patient Lizzie Rose loses egg-freezing case – BBC News
‘A woman with Crohn’s disease has lost a legal challenge against a decision to refuse NHS funding to freeze her eggs.’
BBC News, 15th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Beth Warren waits on sperm legal fight result – BBC News
‘The High Court will rule later on a widow’s attempt to prevent her dead husband’s sperm from being destroyed.’
BBC News, 6th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Widow begins case to keep dead husband’s sperm – The Independent
‘A widow’s High Court case to preserve her late husband’s sperm has begun.’
The Independent, 31st Janaury 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
The good Samaritan doctor and the Human Tissue Act – UK Human Rights Blog
“You would have thought the law would be entirely behind a person who intervenes to help a stranger in distress. Indeed most civil law countries impose a positive duty to rescue, which means that if a person finds someone in need of medical help, he or she must take all reasonable steps to seek medical care and render best-effort first aid. A famous example of this was the investigation into the photographers at the scene of Lady Diana’s fatal car accident: they were suspected of violation of the French law of “non-assistance à personne en danger” (deliberately failing to provide assistance to a person in danger), which can be punished by up to 5 years imprisonment and a fine of up to 70,000 euros. But the position in common law countries like the UK and the United States is completely different: you can watch a child drown and not be held to account.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Woman who battled cancer must fight law to return ovary – Daily Telegraph
“A woman left infertile by teenage cancer is having to battle the law to get doctors to give her back the ovary that she had frozen before chemotherapy.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Missing British boy’s family given new hope with DNA victory – Daily Telegraph
“The family of a British toddler who went missing 20 years ago have won a High Court battle to have his DNA released in a new attempt to trace him.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Brüstle v Greenpeace eV – WLR Daily
Brüstle v Greenpeace eV (Case C-34/10); [2011] WLR (D) 305
“Any human ovum after fertilisation, any non-fertilised human ovum into which the cell nucleus from a mature human cell had been transplanted, and any non-fertilised human ovum whose division and further development had been stimulated by parthenogenesis constituted a ‘human embryo’ within the meaning of article 6(2)(c) of Parliament and Council Directive 98/44/EC of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (OJ 1998 L 213, p 13) and could not therefore be patented.”
WLR Daily, 18th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Couple win battle to save frozen embryos from destruction – The Times
“A couple spoke of their joy and renewed desire to have children last night after ministers allowed them to keep frozen embryos that otherwise would have been destroyed.”
The Times, 10th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Yearworth and Others v North Bristol NHS Trust – Times Law Reports
Yearworth and Others v North Bristol NHS Trust
Court of Appeal
“A sample of sperm from a person undergoing chemotherapy, which a hospital stored in case he became infertile after the treatment, was that person’s property and its loss or damage was capable of establishing a claim in negligence.”
The Times, 10th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note that the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Yearworth and others v North Bristol NHS Trust – WLR Daily
Yearworth and others v North Bristol NHS Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 37; [2009] WLR (D) 34
“The sperm sample of a person undergoing chemotherapy treatment, stored by a hospital for his benefit for future use in case the treatment made him infertile, was property owned by him whose loss or damage entitled him to bring an action for negligence. Moreover, where the circumstances showed there was a bailment of the sperm to the hospital unit storing it, a cause of action for bailment could arise for its loss or damage sounding in damages for psychiatric injury and/or mental distress.”
WLR Daily, 5th February 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Cancer sperm men win court battle – BBC News
“Six male cancer patients have been told they can claim damages after a hospital freezer broke down and destroyed their frozen sperm.”
BBC News, 4th February 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
