‘Businesses should not promote products or services to consumers whose contact details they have bought from another company until they have checked that the seller obtained appropriate consent for such marketing activity, the UK’s privacy watchdog has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st April 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘It is illegal to screenshot Snapchat picture messages and pass them to others on without consent, the Government’s culture minister has said.’
The Independent, 27th March 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Michael Jones, Barrister, Deans Court Chambers, analyses the implications of a recent judgment in Re JL and AO (Babies Relinquished for Adoption) which concerned the adoption of children with the consent of the foreign parents.’
Family Law Week, 17th March 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘A family court judge has ruled that four children must be immunised after their Muslim mother refused consent because she said vaccines contained pork gelatine.’
The Guardian, 17th March 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An NHS Trust v CS (By Her Litigation Friend, the Official Solicitor) ] EWCOP. The Court of Protection does the work of Solomon on a daily basis. Matters of life and death are brought before it, and with them come a mass of conflicting rights, overlapping statutes, and an array of case law from which arguments can be drawn.’
UK Human Rights Law, 26th February 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘An NHS Trust v CS (By Her Litigation Friend, the Official Solicitor) ] EWCOP. The Court of Protection does the work of Solomon on a daily basis. Matters of life and death are brought before it, and with them come a mass of conflicting rights, overlapping statutes, and an array of case law from which arguments can be drawn. At the end of it, an individual judge must make a stark decision, which may have the most profound impact on another human being. One of those charged with making such decisions once divided the advocates who appeared before him into those who complicate and those who clarify. There is no surprise as to which he preferred.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th February 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A man in his 30s who is in the advanced stages of Huntington’s disease and repeatedly pulls out a feeding tube attached to his stomach should be allowed to die, a judge has ruled.’
The Guardian, 12th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A high court judge has ordered the release of a convicted Zimbabwean criminal who has spent more than two years in immigration detention pending his deportation.’
The Guardian, 1st February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A woman in her late 60s who was “locked into the end stage” of multiple sclerosis has died about a month after a judge allowed medics to cease artificial feeding, lawyers say.’
The Guardian, 18th December 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The award of damages to a victim of ‘sexting’ grabbed the attention of the media on at the beginning of December 2015. Given that the judgment appears to have been delivered in September 2015, it isn’t clear why it had not made it in to the news until this week, but such is the way of the media sometimes.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 3rd December 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v C and another [2015] EWCOP 80. A woman who suffered kidney failure as a result of a suicide attempt has been allowed to refuse continuing dialysis. The Court of Protection rejected the hospital’s argument that such refusal disclosed a state of mind that rendered her incapable under the Mental Capacity Act. An adult patient who suffers from no mental incapacity has an absolute right to choose whether to consent to medical treatment. Continuation of such treatment is unlawful, even if the refusal seems irrational to others.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 3rd December 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The Family Justice Council held its 9th Annual Debate and panel discussion on Tuesday 24 November 2015. The topic for this year’s debate was adoption.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 2nd December 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘A woman who rejected life-saving kidney treatment, saying she felt she had lost her “sparkle” and did not want to get old, has died, it has emerged.’
BBC News, 3rd December 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Woman known as C is described as “impulsive and self-centred” but competent enough to refuse dialysis after destroying kidneys in suicide attempt.’
The Guardian, 2nd December 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Consent for organ donation switches from opt-in to “soft opt-out” in Wales from Tuesday. The Labour-led Welsh government claims the law change could lead to a 25% increase in the number of organs available.’
The Guardian, 1st December 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A finance director has been convicted of the date rape of an air stewardess he met on a dating website, by slipping drugs into her glass of wine.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th November 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A woman who was jailed after posing as a man to dupe a friend into having sex with her has lodged an appeal against her sentence.’
BBC News, 23rd November 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The National Gallery has been threatened with legal action relating to a portrait by Henri Matisse, amid claims that it was stolen from its original owner shortly after the second world war.’
The Guardian, 22nd November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Judgments in best interests cases involving children often make for heart-wrenching reading. And so it was in Bolton NHS Foundation Trust v C (by her Children’s Guardian) [2015] EWHC 2920 (Fam), a case which considered Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health guidance, affirming its approach was in conformity with Article 2 and Article 3 ECHR. It also described, in the clearest terms, the terrible challenges facing C’s treating clinicians and her parents.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th November 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A teenager with learning disabilities was “unlawfully” sedated and flown from south-west England to Dundee in a move a health boss likened to “extraordinary rendition to Guantanamo Bay”.’
BBC News, 18th November 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
