No Uncertain Terms
(2018)
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Outputs (27)
Using a Moot to Develop Students’ Understanding of Human Cloning and Statutory Interpretation (2017)
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This article reports and analyses the method and findings from a 3-year interdisciplinary project investigating how the medium of law can support understanding of socio-scientific issues. Law represents one of the most important means by which societ... Read More about Using a Moot to Develop Students’ Understanding of Human Cloning and Statutory Interpretation.
EU Marketing Authorisation of Orphan Medicinal Products and Its Impact on Related Research (2017)
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Over the last 15 years, there has been a steady increase in the development of orphan medicinal products (OMPs). This raises an important question: What impact does the EU marketing authorisation of an OMP have on related research? This article estab... Read More about EU Marketing Authorisation of Orphan Medicinal Products and Its Impact on Related Research.
The Human Rights Act and the Doctrine of Precedent (2014)
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Conflicts between domestic precedents and subsequent decisions of the European Court of Human Rights have resulted in the lower courts following prior domestic decisions even when convinced that they will be overruled on appeal. The standard interpre... Read More about The Human Rights Act and the Doctrine of Precedent.
Emergency Research and the Interests of Participants (2012)
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The UK Clinical Trials Regulations were amended in 2006 and 2008 to facilitate research on medicinal products administered in emergency situations. The Regulations, which implement the EU Clinical Trials Directive, had previously required prior conse... Read More about Emergency Research and the Interests of Participants.
The Value of Bodily Material: Acquiring and Allocating Human Gametes (2012)
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The UK is facing increasing demand for sperm and eggs for use in medical treatment and research. The disparity between supply and demand has led a number of UK bodies to recommend the adoption of a national donation system, at least with regard to ga... Read More about The Value of Bodily Material: Acquiring and Allocating Human Gametes.
Directed donation and ownership of human organs (2011)
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This paper explores the issue of donation of organs from deceased donors for transplantation into a specified recipient. It argues that proper account should be taken of the principles underlying the Human Tissue Act 2004, which grant the donor a for... Read More about Directed donation and ownership of human organs.
Defending Moral Precaution as a Solution to the Problem of Other Minds: A Reply to Holm and Coggon (2010)
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This article responds to Holm & Coggon (2009) 22 Ratio Juris 295–309, which criticises a thesis advanced and defended in earlier (joint and sole authored) work . This ‘precautionary thesis’ is re-expressed and developed to show that Holm & Coggon’s c... Read More about Defending Moral Precaution as a Solution to the Problem of Other Minds: A Reply to Holm and Coggon.
International stem cell environments: a world of difference. (2009)
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Consent and informational responsibility (2009)
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The notion of “consent” is frequently referred to as “informed consent” to emphasise the informational component of a valid consent. This article considers aspects of that informational component. One misuse of the language of informed consent is hig... Read More about Consent and informational responsibility.
Organ Trading, Tourism, and Trafficking within Europe (2008)
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This article argues for a regulatory and institutional response towards organ trading, tourism and trafficking that differs from extant approaches. European countries have hitherto adopted blanket prohibitions on organ trading (i.e. the buying or sel... Read More about Organ Trading, Tourism, and Trafficking within Europe.
Stem Cell Research Ethics: Consensus Statement on Emerging Issues (2007)
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Review Article: First Do No Harm (2007)
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Change and Continuity (2006)
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Review of Michael Jones and Anne Morris, Blackstone's Statues on Medical Law. (2006)
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Medical Research into Emergency Treatment: Regulatory Tensions in England and Wales (2006)
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Amending the Clinical Trials Regulations 2004 (2006)
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Some Problems Challenging the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (2005)
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Variations and voids: the regulation of human cloning around the world (2004)
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Background: No two countries have adopted identical regulatory measures on cloning. Understanding the complexity of these regulatory variations is essential. It highlights the challenges associated with the regulation of a controversial and rapidly e... Read More about Variations and voids: the regulation of human cloning around the world.
Paying Living Organ Providers (2003)
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'Reproductive Cloning: Can Cloning Harm the Clone?' (2002)
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Since the creation of Dolly the sheep was reported in February 1997, the possibility of a cloned child has elicited powerful declarations of condemnation. A widely held view is that cloning a human being would be immoral and ought to be prohibited by... Read More about 'Reproductive Cloning: Can Cloning Harm the Clone?'.
'Horizontal Applicability and Horizontal Effect' (2002)
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Undue influence in the context of medical treatment (2002)
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It is argued that the application of the doctrine of undue influence to patient's decisions in the context of medical treatment is ripe for development. The doctrine is capable of providing much needed protection for vulnerable patients if developed... Read More about Undue influence in the context of medical treatment.
Review of Andrei Marmor, Positive Law and Objective Values. (2001)
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Regulating Germ-Line Gene Therapy to Avoid Sliding Down the Slippery Slope (2000)
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Wrongful Life Actions as a Means of Regulating Use of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies (1999)
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