‘A mother who is trying to stop her teenager being given cross-sex hormones to change their gender has won her fight to keep the courts involved in the case.’
BBC News, 19th December 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The value of the medico-legal market grew by 4% in 2024, double the growth rate of the previous year, researchers have estimated.’
Legal Futures, 12th December 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely across the UK except for use in clinical trials, Labour has announced.’
The Guardian, 11th December 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: anticipatory declarations; systemic failure in considering PDOC patients, and the CQC and DoLS.’
39 Essex Chambers, 1st November 2024
Source: www.39essex.com
‘The introduction of Kim Leadbeater’s Private Member’s Bill which will, if enacted, legalise assisted suicide for “Terminally Ill Adults” in England and Wales has, unsurprisingly, drawn significant commentary from many quarters, including some legal academics and practitioners. This is despite the fact that, as yet, Leadbeater’s Bill has not been published.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 5th November 2024
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘A case-study in witness credibility: Deakin-Stephenson v Behar & Anor [2024] EWHC 2338 (KB).’
Quarterly Medical Law Review , 28th October 2024
Source: 1corqmlr.com
‘A charity supporting gender-questioning young people has been told to rewrite its guidance about the risks of puberty blockers, after a two-year Charity Commission investigation, which also concluded that there had been mismanagement within the organisation. However, the investigation found that the charity, Mermaids, had appropriate safeguarding policies in place and there was no evidence that it provided medical advice to children, which would have been outside its remit.’
The Guardian, 24th October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who died in the Salisbury Novichok poisonings, is set to open on Monday.’
The Independent, 14th October 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Catherine Coyne’s death is one of 62 being investigated, external in inquests opening in Birmingham into deaths of Paterson’s patients.
BBC News, 7th October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Senior doctors and scientists have told the BBC they have concerns about how crucial evidence was presented to the jury at Lucy Letby’s trials.’
BBC News, 1st October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A mother has won a 12-year battle for compensation against an NHS hospital after successfully claiming her child suffered brain damage as a result of a botched surgery.’
The Independent, 25th September 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A coroner has raised concerns about how local anaesthetic is administered after a woman was given too much during an operation and later died.’
BBC News, 3rd September 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Some 140 women who experienced distressing side effects after getting vaginal mesh implants have won payouts expected to stretch into millions of pounds in England.’
The Independent, 19th August 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The critical report into the mental healthcare given to Valdo Calocane – a paranoid schizophrenic who fatally stabbed three people in Nottingham last year – is damning.’
BBC News, 14th August 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The death of a mother at the hospital where she gave birth to her fifth baby was “avoidable and contributed to by neglect”, a coroner has ruled.’
BBC News, 12th August 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘After 40 years of campaigning, thousands of people affected by the infected blood scandal gathered on 20 May in Westminster Central Hall to give the chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry what can only be described as a ‘rock star’ welcome.’
Landmark Chambers, 16th July 2024
Source: landmarkchambers.co.uk
‘McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board concerned an allegation of negligence, in failing to consider treating pericarditis with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as a reasonable alternative treatment and not discussing this option with the patient. Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board held that a medical professional must disclose to a patient material risks and any reasonable alternative treatments. The materiality of a risk is to be decided by reference to a reasonable person in the patient’s position, or where the medical professional should be reasonably aware that the particular patient is likely to attach significance to that risk. However, Montgomery did not define the legal standard relating to the assessment of whether an alternative treatment is reasonable. McCulloch held the correct legal test to be applied as to whether an alternative treatment is reasonable is the professional-practice test in Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee. There are practical, doctrinal and normative reasons to question whether Bolam is the correct legal test in respect of the assessment of reasonable alternative treatments. Additionally, the conceptualisation of Bolam in McCulloch is overly deferential. McCulloch fails to fully consider Montgomery’s emphasis that autonomy-respecting principles are the values that risk disclosure practices are sensitive to.’
Modern Law Review, 4th July 2024
Source: onlinelibrary.wiley.com
‘When medical treatment can be considered to be a futile is an important, but sometimes difficult, question. What can make it difficult in the context of those with impaired decision-making capacity is the potential for it to start “coding” judgments about other matters, above all judgments about the quality of life of the patient. In Re XY [2024 EWCOP 37 (T3), the issue of futility arose in the context of a decision whether continuing life-sustaining treatment was in the best interests of a man who in a prolonged disorder of consciousness. The treating Trust wished to cease mechanical ventilation and the provision of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration on the basis that its continuation was no longer in XY’s best interests.’
Mental Capacity Law and Policy, 28th July 2024
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