Medical Law Review

2021 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor Sara Fovargue and Professor Jose Miola

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Volume 33, issue 1, 2025

G v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2024] EWHC 2453 (FAM): two distinct routes to posthumous fertility treatment pp. 1.

Lisa Cherkassky and Emily Ottley

Mental health and capacity laws in Northern Ireland: examining the position of children and young people pp. 2.

Anne-Maree Farrell, Elizabeth Agnew and Patrick Hann

Maeve O’Rourke, Human Rights and the Care of Older People: Dignity, Vulnerability, and the Anti-Torture Norm pp. 288

Ergün Cakal

A reparatory account of health inequities pp. 3.

Michael Thomson

Future challenges for UK regulation of brain organoid research pp. 4.

Emily Jackson

Regulating algorithmic care in the European Union: evolving doctor–patient models through the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI-Act) and the liability directives pp. 5.

Barry Solaiman and Abeer Malik

The two lives of the Mental Capacity Act: rethinking East-west binaries in comparative analysis pp. 6.

Hillary Chua, Camillia Kong and Michael Dunn

Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier (eds), Global Health Law & Policy: Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World pp. 600

Aileen Editha

Unlocking the promise of UK health data: considering the case for a charitable GP data trust pp. 7.

Caroline A B Redhead, Catherine Bowden, John Ainsworth, Nigel Burns, James Cunningham, Søren Holm and Sarah Devaney

Harnessing deliberative regulation to address inequities in accessing healthcare services in England pp. 8.

Sabrina Germain and Gianluca Veronesi

Volume 32, issue 4, 2024

Editorial: Reproductive health, choice, and justice pp. 441-443

Bev Clough, Sara Fovargue, Rob Heywood and José Miola

Addressing the consequences of the corporatization of reproductive medicine pp. 444-467

Sara A Attinger, Emily Jackson, Isabel Karpin, Ian Kerridge, Ainsley J Newson, Cameron Stewart, Lucy van de Wiel and Wendy Lipworth

FemTech: empowering reproductive rights or FEM-TRAP for surveillance? pp. 468-485

Dylan Hofmann

Towards a rights-based approach for disabled women’s access to abortion pp. 486-504

Magdalena Furgalska and Fiona de Londras

Donor conception, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, choices, and procedural justice: an argument for reform of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 pp. 505-529

Caroline A B Redhead and Lucy Frith

Anticipatory declarations in obstetric care: a relational and spatial examination of patient empowerment, institutional impacts and temporal challenges pp. 530-548

Aimee V Hulme

Guy’s and St Thomas’-v-Knight [2021] EWHC 25: Dignity in English law pp. 549-557

Melanie J Weismann

The Delicate Balance Struck by the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024 pp. 558-566

Emily Ottley

James Cameron, Critically Ill Children and the Law: Medical Decision-Making and the Best Interests Principle pp. 567-570

Alex Ruck Keene

Fiona Kelly, Deborah Dempsey, and Adrienne Byrt (eds), Donor-Linked Family in the Digital Age: Relatedness and Regulation pp. 570-576

Andrea Martani

Julia Duffy, Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights pp. 576-580

Kay Wilson

Theodosia Stavroulaki, Healthcare, Quality Concerns and Competition Law—A Systematic Approach pp. 580-585

Mary Guy

Volume 32, issue 3, 2024

‘My Advocacy is Not About Me, My Advocacy is About Canadians’: A Qualitative Study of how Caregivers and Patients Influence Regulation of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada pp. 301-335

Ruthie Jeanneret, Eliana Close, Jocelyn Downie, Lindy Willmott and Ben P White

Mediating disputes under the Mental Capacity Act 2005: relationships, participation, and best interests pp. 336-355

Jaime Lindsey and Chris Danbury

Money matters: a critique of ‘informed financial consent’ pp. 356-372

Sara A Attinger, Ian Kerridge, Cameron Stewart, Isabel Karpin, Siun Gallagher, Robert J Norman and Wendy Lipworth

A health-conformant reading of the GDPR’s right not to be subject to automated decision-making pp. 373-391

Hannah B van Kolfschooten

France’s constitutional right to abortion: symbolism over substance pp. 392-398

Zoe L Tongue

The short-lived verdict in Le Page v Center for Reproductive Medicine: why ‘personhood’ matters in the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies pp. 399-409

Edward R Grant

Michael Holmes v Poeton Holdings Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 1377: a necessary clarification for a non ‘de minimis’ discussion in causation pp. 410-420

Patricia de Moraes Paisani Matthey Claudet

Thierry Vansweevelt and Nicola Glover-Thomas (eds.), Privacy and Medical Confidentiality in Healthcare: A Comparative Analysis pp. 421-426

Edward S Dove

Steph Jowett, Consent for Medical Treatment of Trans Youth pp. 426-431

Ed Horowicz

Suzanne Ost and Hazel Biggs, Exploitation, Ethics and Law. Violating the Ethos of the Doctor–Patient Relationship pp. 431-438

Jonathan Fisk

Volume 32, issue 2, 2024

Accommodations of private and family life and non-traditional families: the limits of deference in cases of cross-border surrogacy before the European Court of Human Rights pp. 141-157

Lydia Bracken

How should we decide how to treat the child: harm versus best interests in cases of disagreement pp. 158-177

David Archard, Emma Cave and Joe Brierley

Heritable human genome editing: correction, selection and treatment pp. 178-204

Rosamund Scott

Biobank donation in search of public benefits and the potential impact of intellectual property rights over access to health-technologies developed: A focus on the bioethical implications pp. 205-228

Aisling M McMahon and Opeyemi I Kolawole

‘Border Country’: health law in a devolved UK pp. 229-247

John Harrington and Abbie-Rose Hampton

Case Comment—JJ v Spectrum Community Health: When Medical Paternalism Meets Prisoners’ Dignity pp. 248-254

Angelika R Reichstein

Indi Gregory: A Wider Perspective on Children’s Best Interests at the End-of-life pp. 255-263

Kevin De Sabbata and Abigail Pearson

McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board [2023] UKSC 26: Hello Bolam, the court’s old friend pp. 264-273

Louise Austin

Jaime Lindsey, Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law pp. 274-281

Jordan Briggs

Margaret Brazier, Law and Healing: A History of a Stormy Marriage pp. 281-286

Rebekah McWhirter

Sally Sheldon, Gayle Davis, Jane O’Neill and Clare Parker, The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law pp. 286-292

Emily Ottley

Stevie Martin, Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights pp. 292-298

John Keown

Volume 32, issue 1, 2024

Healthcare Services for Asylum-Seekers: Untangling the European Social Charter pp. 1-19

Yana Litins’ka

Post-trial access to investigational drugs in India: addressing challenges in the regulatory framework pp. 20-41

Nidhi Mehrotra and Padmavati Manchikanti

Looking back to look forward—the history of VAD laws in Australia and future law reform in the Australian territories pp. 42-60

Kerstin Braun

The role of non-genetic parents in a surrogate-born child’s identity: an argument for removal of the genetic link requirement pp. 61-80

Lottie Park-Morton

The role of the right to life in respect of deaths caused by negligence in the healthcare context pp. 81-100

Elizabeth Wicks

Bangladesh’s Mental Health Act 2018: A Critical Analysis pp. 101-110

Rose Barua

Puzzles of the Liminal Dead: St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Casey pp. 111-119

Mary Donnelly and Barry Lyons

Govert den Hartogh, What Kind of Death: The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death pp. 120-126

Chrystala Fakonti

Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn (eds), Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis pp. 127-133

Daniel Bianchi

Xavier Symons, Why Conscience Matters: A Defence of Conscientious Objection in Healthcare pp. 133-139

James E Hurford