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Judgement: SCC rules on rights of seriously ill children to make their own...
The Supreme Court of Canada has held by a 6-1 majority that seriously ill children under the age of 16 may be treated against their wishes in the child’s best interests. The adolescent in question,...
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News: the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment in Western Australia
The Supreme Court of Western Australia has clarified the “legal obligations under Western Australian law of a medical service provider which has assumed responsibility for the care of a...
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News: an advance decision to refuse treatment following a suicide attempt
The inquest into the death of Kerrie Wooltorton has recorded a narrative verdict. According to BBC News, “Miss Wooltorton wrote her living will in September 2007, asking for no intervention if she...
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News and comment: Forced treatment in cancer patient’s best interests
In DH NHS Foundation Trust v PS [2010] EWHC 1217 (Fam), Wall P. ruled that it would be lawful to impose treatment on an incompetent cancer patient in her best interests, despite her apparent dissent...
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TV: right to die in Law and Order: UK
ITV1, Monday 14 March 2011, 9-10pm, available after broadcast via the ITVPlayer The Radio Times is reporting that episode 2 of the new series of Law and Order: UK will feature a ‘right to die’ issue:...
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Debates: inter-medical school debates on issues in medical ethics
Should Somatic support be prolonged for a brain dead woman who is 23 weeks pregnant until the foetus can be safely delivered with a good chance of survival? Should a 15 year old be allowed to refuse...
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Comment: Advance decisions to refuse treatment (ADRT) forms in dementia
I’ve done a little research on advance decisions to refuse treatment (ADRT) forms in dementia for an upcoming BBC Radio 4 episode of Inside the ethics committee, to be broadcast on 31 July 2014 at 9am....
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Radio: iPM on a patient with capacity having her life-sustaining pacemaker...
Last year, the Radio 4 programme iPM ran an item about an adult patient with capacity seeking to have her pacemaker deactivated: “Who can make decisions about a pacemaker once it’s in my body?’ – After...
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Seminar: My Life, My Decision: A new approach to advance care planning
Thursday October 20, 2016 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Church House Westminster, Deans Yard, London A free seminar organised by Compassion in Dying: My Life, My Decision was an ambitious, multifaceted programme...
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