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How should we decide how to treat the child: harm versus best interests in cases of disagreement. (2023)
Journal Article
Archard, D., Cave, E., & Brierley, J. (2024). How should we decide how to treat the child: harm versus best interests in cases of disagreement. Medical Law Review, 32(2), 158–177. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwad040

Where parents seek treatment for their young child that healthcare professionals cannot agree to, the High Court can determine what is in the child's best interests. Some activists and academics seek change to impose threshold criteria that would bol... Read More about How should we decide how to treat the child: harm versus best interests in cases of disagreement..

A Future Orientated View of Autonomy (2023)
Book Chapter
Cave, E. (in press). A Future Orientated View of Autonomy. In L. Forsberg, I. Black, A. Skelton, & J. Herring (Eds.), Consenting Children: Autonomy, Well-being, Responsibility. Oxford University Press

This chapter considers qualifications to the view expressed by Lord Scarman in Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Health Authority that ‘a minor’s capacity to make his or her own decision depends upon the minor having sufficient understanding and int... Read More about A Future Orientated View of Autonomy.

The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984) (2023)
Book Chapter
Cave, E. (2023). The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984). In S. Fovargue, & C. Purshouse (Eds.), Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003146612-6

When the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology was published in the UK in 1984, human fertilisation and embryology was developing at pace. The same has been true since and remains the case today. And yet the Commi... Read More about The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984).

Medicine, Patients and the Law (2023)
Book
Brazier, M., Cave, E., & Heywood, R. (2023). Medicine, Patients and the Law. (7th edition). MUP

Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, pandemic vaccine development, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials - modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and... Read More about Medicine, Patients and the Law.

Law and policy can do more to address adolescence in early adulthood (2023)
Digital Artefact
Cave, E., & Cave, H. (2023). Law and policy can do more to address adolescence in early adulthood. [Blog Post]

Emma Cave and Hannah Cave discuss their recently published work in which they call for responses in medical policy, law and practice to evidence about how adolescence can affect decision making by young adults

Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment (2023)
Journal Article
Cave, E., & Cave, H. (2023). Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment. Modern Law Review, 86(4), 984-1010. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12798

We consider how the sufficiency of young adults’ autonomy is judged in light of biological, social and psychological evidence that adolescence can continue into the mid 20s. Until then, adolescent adults are prone to developmental immaturity which ca... Read More about Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment.