Medical Law Review

2021 - 2025

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

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Volume 31, issue 4, 2023

The frontiers of medical negligence and diagnosis: an interview-based analysis pp. 485-500

Annie Mackley, Kathleen Liddell, Jeffrey M Skopek, Isabelle Le Gallez and Zoë Fritz

Artificial intelligence and clinical decision support: clinicians’ perspectives on trust, trustworthiness, and liability pp. 501-520

Caroline Jones, James Thornton and Jeremy C Wyatt

Regulating non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for fetal sex determination pp. 521-537

Michelle Taylor-Sands, Chanelle Warton and Hilary Bowman-Smart

The (mis)use of fetal viability as the determinant of non-criminal abortion in the Netherlands and England and Wales pp. 538-563

Samantha Halliday, Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Lien de Proost and E Joanne Verweij

Interpersonal influences on decision-making capacity: a content analysis of court judgments pp. 564-593

Kevin Ariyo, Nuala B Kane, Gareth S Owen and Alex Ruck Keene

The appeal in Bell v Tavistock and beyond: where are we now with trans children’s treatment for gender dysphoria? pp. 594-605

Kirsty L Moreton

R v Foster: Exemplifying the urgency of the decriminalisation of abortion pp. 606-614

Elizabeth Chloe Romanis

Mortier v Belgium [2022] ECHR 764: Warning Signs for Assisted Dying Regulation? pp. 615-622

Chay M Burt

Joel Michael Reynolds and Christine Wieseler (eds), The Disability Bioethics Reader pp. 623-629

Heloise Robinson

Paul Enríquez, Rewriting Nature: The Future of Genome Editing and how to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science pp. 629-636

Jeanne Snelling

Fiona Bloomer and Emma Campbell (eds), Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland, Volumes 1 (Legislation and Protest) and 2 (Allies and Abortion Provision) pp. 636-642

Rebecca Smyth

Volume 31, issue 3, 2023

When is the processing of data from medical implants lawful? The legal grounds for processing health-related personal data from ICT implantable medical devices for treatment purposes under EU data protection law pp. 317-339

Sarita Lindstad and Kaspar Rosager Ludvigsen

Mental capacity—why look for a paradigm shift? pp. 340-357

Alex Ruck Keene, Nuala B Kane, Scott Y H Kim and Gareth S Owen

Intellectual property protection for traditional medical knowledge in China’s context: a round peg in a square hole? pp. 358-390

Nan Xia

The publication of impaired doctors’ identity by Australian and New Zealand tribunals: law, practice, and reform pp. 391-423

Owen M Bradfield, Marie M Bismark, Matthew J Spittal and Paula O’Brien

The Warnock report and partial ectogestation: retracing the past to step into the future pp. 424-440

Victoria Adkins

London Borough of Islington v EF [2022] EWHC 803 (FAM): falling through the great safety net of the inherent jurisdiction pp. 441-448

Daniel Bedford and Philip Bremner

Jennings v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2022] EWHC 1619 (Fam): confirming the paradigm of inferred consent for posthumous conception pp. 449-456

Alexander Tiseo

Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022): consequences one year on pp. 457-468

Emily Ottley, Karolina Szopa and Jamie Fletcher

Jonathan Herring, The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide pp. 469-473

Ewa Posner

Sue Westwood, Regulating the End of Life—Death Rights pp. 473-478

Nataly Papadopoulou

Daniel Wei Liang Wang, ‘Health Technology Assessment, Courts and the Right to Healthcare’ pp. 478-482

Thomas J W Peck

Volume 31, issue 2, 2023

Parsing human rights, promoting health equity: reflections on Colombia’s response to Venezuelan migration pp. 187-204

Stefano Angeleri and Thérèse Murphy

The Voluntary Sterilisation Act: Best Interests, Caregivers, and Disability Rights pp. 205-225

Hillary Chua

Plaintiff aims in medical negligence disputes: limitations of an adversarial system pp. 226-246

Mary-Elizabeth Tumelty

Record linkage of routine and cohort data of children in Portugal: challenges and opportunities when using record linkage as a tool for scientific research pp. 247-271

Julia Nadine Doetsch, Vasco Dias, Inês Lopes, Regina Redinha and Henrique Barros

Should states restrict recipient choice amongst relevant and available COVID-19 vaccines? pp. 272-292

Emma Cave and Aisling McMahon

Terminating abortion demonstrations pp. 293-302

Candace Lui and Edward Lui

Swati Jha and Eloise Power (eds), Lessons from Medicolegal Cases in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Improving Clinical Practice pp. 303-308

Anna Nelson

Carolyn Adams, Judy Allen, and Felicity Flack, Sharing Linked Data for Health Research: Toward Better Decision Making pp. 308-314

Edward S Dove

Volume 31, issue 1, 2023

WHERE DOES RESPONSIBILITY LIE? ANALYSING LEGAL AND REGULATORY RESPONSES TO FLAWED CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS WHEN PATIENTS SUFFER HARM pp. 1-24

Megan Prictor

‘THIS IS NO COUNTRY FOR OLD (WO)MEN’? AN EXAMINATION OF THE APPROACH TAKEN TO CARE HOME RESIDENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC pp. 25-46

Clayton Ó Néill

THE REQUIREMENT FOR TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE YOUTH TO SEEK COURT APPROVAL FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF HORMONE TREATMENT: A COMPARISON OF AUSTRALIAN JURISPRUDENCE WITH THE ENGLISH DECISION IN BELL pp. 47-82

Malcolm K Smith

RELATIONSHIPS, RIGHTS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (RE)VIEWING THE NHS CONSTITUTION FOR THE POST-PANDEMIC ‘NEW NORMAL’ pp. 83-108

Caroline A B Redhead, Sara Fovargue, Lucy Frith, Anna Chiumento, Heather Draper and Paul B Baines

ON GESTATION AND MOTHERHOOD pp. 109-140

Zaina Mahmoud and Elizabeth Chloe Romanis

SELF-ADMINISTRATION OR PRACTITIONER ADMINISTRATION? THE SCOPE OF FUTURE GERMAN ASSISTED DYING LEGISLATION pp. 141-157

Kerstin Braun

The Health and Care Act 2022: inserting telemedicine into the Abortion Act 1967 pp. 158-166

Adelyn L M Wilson

B v University of Aberdeen [2020] CSIH 62: Where there’s a will, there’s a way pp. 167-174

Alexander Tiseo

Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu, Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context pp. 175-182

Jordan Briggs

Bo Chen, Mental Health Law in China: A Socio-Legal Analysis, Routledge, 2022, Hardback/ebook, 176 pp, £120/£33.29, ISBN 9781032079066 pp. 182-185

Alex Ruck Keene

Volume 30, issue 4, 2022

Editorial pp. 581-583

B Clough, S Fovargue, R Heywood and J Miola

Vaccination as an Equaliser? Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritisation and Compensation pp. 584-609

Christian Günther, Lauren Tonti and Irene Domenici

Legal Determinants of Health pp. 610-634

Michael Thomson

The Challenge of Bioinequality: Addressing the Health Impact of Unequal Treatment Through Law pp. 635-657

Isabel A Karpin and Karen O’Connell

Inequality by design: The politics behind forced migrants’ access to healthcare pp. 658-679

Mechthild Roos

The social determinants of health, law, and urban development: using human rights to address structural health inequalities in our cities pp. 680-704

Lisa Montel

The legal determinants of health (in)justice pp. 705-723

John Coggon and Beth Kamunge-Kpodo

The Scope of a Doctor’s Duty of Care to Their Patient pp. 724-733

Gemma Turton

R (Gardner and Harris) v Secretary of State for Health and Social care and Others [2022] EWHC 967: Scant regard for Covid-19 risk to care homes pp. 734-743

Victoria L Moore and Luke D Graham

Parental orders for deceased intended parents: Re X (Foreign Surrogacy: Death of Intended Parent) [2022] EWFC 34 pp. 744-752

Alan Brown and Katherine Wade

Jordan A Parsons and Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Early Medical Abortion, Equality of Access, and the Telemedical Imperative pp. 753-757

Philippa Kemp

Lucy Series, Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution pp. 757-762

Ruby Reed-Berendt

David Orentlicher and Tamara K.Hervey (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law pp. 762-767

Mary Guy

Jeremy Hunt, Zero: Eliminating Unnecessary Deaths in a Post-pandemic NHS pp. 768-771

Harry Hudson

Volume 30, issue 3, 2022

Legal horizons and new challenges pp. 407-409

Hazel Biggs and Suzanne Ost

Monitoring Female Fertility Through ‘Femtech’: The Need for a Whole-System Approach to Regulation pp. 410-433

Catriona McMillan

DNACPR Decisions: Aligning Law, Guidance, and Practice pp. 434-456

Sabine Michalowski and Wayne Martin

Is the Unequal Treatment of Maternal and Paternal Liability Under the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976 Justified? pp. 457-478

Catherine E Bowden

Judicial Discomfort over ‘Innovative’ Treatment for Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria pp. 479-508

Michelle M Taylor-Sands and Georgina Dimopoulos

Fixed Buffer Zone Legislation: A Proportionate Response to Demonstrations Outside Abortion Clinics in England and Wales? pp. 509-533

Emily Ottley

A fine balance: Best interests in the context of invasive treatment and autism: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust v William Verden [2022] EWCOP 9 pp. 534-543

Mollie Cornell

An Emerging Pattern? A Further Case of Anticipated Capacity Loss in Pregnancy: North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust V SR [2021] EWCOP 58 pp. 544-554

Aimee V Hulme

Anna Nilsson, Compulsory Mental Health Interventions and the CRPD: Minding Equality pp. 555-562

John Fanning

Jonathan Herring, Law and the Relational Self pp. 562-574

Clark Hobson

Jo Samanta and Ash Samanta (eds), Clinical Guidelines and the Law of Medical Negligence—Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives pp. 574-578

Lindsey Hogg

Volume 30, issue 2, 2022

Times have changed? pp. 213-215

Margaret Brazier

Beyond Criminalisation: Abortion Law Reform in Aotearoa New Zealand pp. 216-242

Jeanne M Snelling

Vaccine Liability in the Light of Covid-19: A Defence of Risk–Benefit pp. 243-267

Richard Goldberg

Presumed Dissent? Opt-out Organ Donation and the Exclusion of Organs and Tissues pp. 268-298

Nicola J Williams, Laura O’Donovan and Stephen Wilkinson

‘She Wanted to Listen to her General Practitioner’s Advice…’: Exploring and Explaining Antibiotic Prescribing as a Regulatory Encounter pp. 299-323

David J Carter

Duties of Candour in Healthcare: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth? pp. 324-347

Oliver Quick

The Omid Litigation: Should Courts Hear Oral Evidence When Determining the Proportionality of Section 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961? pp. 348-363

Nataly Papadopoulou and Clark Hobson

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust V AB [2020] EWCOP 40—Mental Capacity and the Anorexic Patient in the Court of Protection: Understanding Values, Framing Matters and Specification of the Declaration pp. 364-379

Matthew J B Watkins

Jonathan Herring, Law Through the Life Course pp. 380-387

Victoria Adkins

Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland, and Jonathan Herring, Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective pp. 380-384

Emma Nottingham

Visa A. J. Kurki, A Theory of Legal Personhood pp. 392-399

Kelly Amal Dhru

Jo Bridgeman, Medical Treatment of Children and the Law—Beyond Parental Responsibilities pp. 400-404

Aoife Daly

Volume 30, issue 1, 2022

Guest Editorial pp. 1-3

Andrew Grubb and Ian Kennedy

The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform pp. 4-32

Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Alexandra Mullock and Jordan A Parsons

Differentiating Negligent Standards of Care in Diagnosis pp. 33-59

Kathleen Liddell, Jeffrey M Skopek, Isabelle Le Gallez and Zoë Fritz

DNACPR decisions during Covid-19: An empirical and analytical study pp. 60-80

Hannah Bows and Jonathan Herring

Dying with Assistance: The Call for an Inquiry, the Power of a declaration, the role of evidence pp. 81-109

Nataly Papadopoulou

The National Quality Framework: The Benchmark for the Alcohol and Other Drug Sector in Australia pp. 110-136

Simone M Henriksen

Whose Right Is It Anyway? The Duties Owed to a Deceased and to Surviving Family Members When Dealing with a Corpse: Brennan v City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] 1 WLUK 429 pp. 137-149

Tina Davey and David Mead

Samantha Thimmaya v Lancashire NHS Foundation Trust v Mr Firas Jamil pp. 150-157

Catherine Stanton

Reforming the Mental Health Act: Will More Rights Lead to Fewer Wrongs? pp. 158-176

Judy Laing

Crowter v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2021] EWHC 2536: Discrimination, Disability, and Access to Abortion pp. 177-187

Zoe L Tongue

Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier (eds), Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights pp. 188-193

Abbie-Rose Hampton

Ivan Glenn Cohen, Disability, Health, Law and Bioethics pp. 193-199

Aisling de Paor

Mélinée Kazarian, Criminalising Medical Malpractice: A Comparative Perspective pp. 199-210

James Slater

Erratum to: Feats, Flops, and Free Lessons From NZ’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 211-211

Joanna M Manning