Right-to-die man awaits court ruling – BBC News
“The Court of Appeal is due to rule on the case of a paralysed man who wants to be helped to die.”
BBC News, 31st July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: medical ethics
Aberystwyth doctor six-month ban for ‘flirting’ texts – BBC News
“A doctor who worked at Aberystwyth’s Bronglais hospital has been struck off for six months after sending flirtatious texts messages.”
BBC News, 10th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Lord Falconer to press on assisted dying law – BBC News
“Parliament is to be asked to consider the case for legalising assisted dying for terminally ill patients who have less than six months to live.”
BBC News, 7th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Genetic testing of children up for adoption – UK Human Rights Blog
“Y and Z (Children), 25 April 2013 [2013] EWHC 953 (Fam). Having children is a lottery. No judge or court in the land would sanction the regulation of childbearing, however feckless the parents, unsuitable the conditions for childrearing, or unpromising the genetic inheritance. Adoption on the other hand is stringently regulated, set about with obstacles for prospective parents, and strictly scrutinised by an army of authorities backed up by specialist family courts and a battery of laws, statutory instruments and guidance papers. Usually the filtering is in one direction only: the suitability of the parents to the child or children up for adoption. But sometimes it goes the other way, and this case raises the fascinating and somewhat futuristic question of whether children’s chance of finding a suitable home might be increased by genetic testing.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Court of Protection Update – Family Law Week
“Sally Bradley and Michael Edwards, barristers at 4 Paper Buildings, look at recent decisions on capacity in the Court of Protection.”
Family Law Week, 12th April 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Doctors allowed to date former patients – Daily Telegraph
“A watchdog has updated its guidance on doctors having romantic relationships
with their former patients, urging medical professionals to use their
‘professional judgement’ to decide if it is appropriate.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
An overdue inquiry into the working of the Abortion Act – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“Whatever your view of abortion, there are too many abortions, and too many of them are too late. Even abortion’s fiercest advocates do not pretend that it is a good thing – just the lesser of two evils.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 15th February 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Genital photo surgeon Erik Scholten has suspension lifted – BBC News
“A plastic surgeon suspended for photographing a female patient’s genitalia on his phone without her consent has been allowed back to work.”
BBC News, 12th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mental health ‘excuse’ to sign off abortions – Daily Telegraph
“Doctors are routinely bending the law to allow women to have abortions on questionable mental-health grounds, the head of Britain’s biggest abortion provider has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Neon Roberts to have surgery against mother’s wishes after court ruling – The Guardian
“A high court judge has ordered that a seven-year-old boy at the centre of a legal dispute must have an urgent life-saving brain operation despite his mother’s refusal to give her consent.”
The Guardian, 18th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Permanent injunction against anti-vivisection protestors – UK Human Rights Blog
“The High Court has granted a medical testing laboratory a final injunction against anti-vivisectioners protesting outside their premises.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th December 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Family of L, a man left in a vegetative state, wage court battle for right to life – The Guardian
“The family of a man left in a vegetative state after a heart attack has made an eleventh hour appeal for doctors to do all they can to keep him alive as they await a vital court ruling.”
The Guardian, 19th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judge rules boy’s life support can be switched off despite parents’ hope of miracle – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has ordered that doctors can switch off a young boy’s life-support system even though his devout Christian parents pleaded for him to be kept alive in case of a miracle.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Judge says religious couple’s brain-damaged baby can be allowed to die – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has ruled that a severely brain-damaged baby boy can be allowed to die even though his devoutly religious parents wanted him to be kept on a life-support system.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Legalising assisted dying ‘doesn’t lead to more opting for death’: Lancet – Daily Telegraph
“Legalising assisted dying does not lead to more people opting to end their lives early, claim academics who have looked at the situation in The Netherlands.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Judge orders that anorexic woman can be force-fed | Analysis – UK Human Rights Blog
“Mr Justice Jackson has ruled that it would be lawful and in the best interests of a 32 year old woman (referred to in the judgment as ‘E’) for her to be fed, using physical force or chemical sedation as necessary, for a period of ‘not less than a year’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th June 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘As hard as it gets’: the case of anorexic E and the right to die – The Guardian
“The judge in this challenging case eventually relied on intuition. In such a dilemma, can law or ethics ever yield a single right answer?”
The Guardian, 19th JUne 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Anorexic medical student should be fed against her will, judge rules – Daily Telegraph
“A High Court judge has ruled that it is in the best interests of a woman who suffers from anorexia to be fed against her wishes.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
