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Consent: Doctor’s orders?
Paul Sankey looks at the recent case law concerning patients receiving care ‘The Supreme Court has rejected a clinician-centred and paternalistic approach to consent replacing paternalism with patient autonomy.’There have been a number of cases dealing with the law of consent to medical treatment over the last two years, the most notable of which is …
Cases Referenced
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- A v East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWHC 1038 (QB)
- Border v Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust [2015] EWCA Civ 8
- David Spencer v Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 1058 (QB)
- Julie Connolly v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 1339 (QB)
- MC v Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust [2016] EWHC 1334 (QB)
- Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2010] CSOH 104; [2015] UKSC 11
- Shaw v Kovac [2015] EWHC 3335 (QB); [2017] EWCA Civ 1028
- Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital [1985] UKHL 1
- SXX v Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWHC 4072
- Tasmin v Barts Health NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 3135 (QB)