Asserting the right to life - A challenge to medical guidance on withdrawing treatment

Medicine and Law

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-20

  Levy, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial nutrition and hydration; European Convention on Human Rights; General Medical Council (UK); Right to life; Withholding life prolonging treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; HUMAN RIGHTS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LAW SUIT; LIFE; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT RIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RIGHT TO LIFE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 17844406422     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. [2004] EWHC 1879
2. Re B (Consent to Treatment: Capacity) [2002] EWHC 429
3. Re MB (Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FLR 426
4. Bensaid v. United Kingdom (2001) 33 EHRR 205
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6. per Lord Hoffmann at pp.826-827
7. See n.4 per Lord Hoffmann at p.829
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11. Hence the so-called "new Bolam". See Bolitho v. City and Hackney Health Authority [1997] 4 All ER 885 and Brazier and Miola, 'Bye-Bye Bolam: A Medical Litigation Revolution' [2000] Med.L.Rev 85
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13. n.12 at p.51
14. n.12 at p.55
15. see n.4
16. n.1 para 131
17. n.1 para 138
18. (1997) 24 EHRR 423
19. n.1 para 174
20. n.1 at para 145
21. [2001] Fam.348
22. [2004] 1 FLR 1019
23. n.1 para 216