At least two lawsuits filed at a top European court claim Russia violated Europe's Human Rights Convention by removing organs from the recently dead without telling relatives.
ABC v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd and others, Singapore Civil Court of Appeal [2017] SGCA 20 - read judgment It is a trite reflection that law should change with the times but every so often we see the hair-pin bends in law's pursuit of modern technology. This case from Singapore about reproductive rights and negligence…
In this case, a mistake was made in the process of an in vitro-fertilisation procedure involving a Singaporean Chinese woman and her German Caucasian husband.
Mistakenly, the wife’s egg was inseminated with sperm from an unknown Indian donor.
Baby P was born healthy, but with a different skin tone.
The claimant’s affidavit states that the pain and suffering that she suffered as a result, physically, mentally and emotionally, was “beyond words” and was “agonizing”
The United Nations Programme on Disabilities works to assist in the promotion of effective measures for prevention of disability, rehabilitation, and the realization of the goals of full participation of disabled persons in social life and development,...
Rapport d'information de MM. Claude Evin, Bernard Charles et Jean-Jacques Denis, déposé en application de l'article 145 du règlement par la commission des affaires culturelles, sur la loi n° 2002-303 du 4 mars 2002 relative aux droits des malades et à la qualité du système de santé (n° 3688, 11 avril 2002).
1997) 44(5) NY Rev of Books 41 Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief By Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, T.M. Scanlon, Judith Jarvis Thomson Later this year the Supreme Court will decide two cases posing the question whether dying patients have a right to choose death rather than continued pain and suffering.We print here the brief filed as amicus curiae in these cases by the group of six moral philosophers listed above, with an introduction by Ronald Dworkin.
The Government's proposals for making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults. A Report issued in the light of responses to the consultation paper Who Decides? Presented to Parliament by the Lord High Chancellor by Command of Her Majesty (Cm 4465) October 1999