Peter Dunne, Lecturer in Law, has an article out in the most recent edition of the Medical Law Review. Titled ‘Transgender Sterilisation Requirements in Europe’, it addresses the continuation in twenty countries across the Council of Europe of sterilisation as a requirement for applicants who want their preferred gender formally acknowledged. The article explores the legal, social, medical, and moral rationales used as basis for the current transgender sterilisation laws in Europe, and ultimately argues for a need for a change in attitudes towards transgender parenting as well as to the conditions for legal recognition.
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Louise Austin, PhD Candidate in Law and an Associate Teacher in Medical Law, has a case commentary on advance access: ‘Grimstone v Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust: (It’s Not) Hip To Be Square’. The article examines standards of disclosure of potential risks and informed consent to medical treatment in light of Grimstone v Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. In this case the old standard of disclosure (the doctor-focused Bolam standard) was used to determine liability for non-disclosure, despite the formation of a new standard favouring disclosure based on what is significant to patients. The article explores the decision and implications of using the Bolam standard rather than the new one that applied.
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