Landmark Cases in Medical Law

Jonathan Herring is a Professor of Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford. Jesse Wall is a Lecturer at the University of Otago.

Introduction
Jonathan Herring and Jesse Wall
1. Doodeward v Spence (1908)
Loane Skene
2. Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957]: Medical Law ’ s Accordion
José Miola
3. Re B (A Minor) (Wardship: Sterilisation) [1988]: ‘People Like Us Don’t Have Babies’: Learning Disability,
Prospective Parenthood and Legal Transformations
Kirsty Keywood
4. Re B (A Minor) (Wardship: Medical Treatment) [1981]: ‘The Child Must Live’: Disability, Parents and the Law
Jonathan Herring
5. Airedale NHS Trust v Bland [1993] Charles Foster
6. R v Cambridge Health Authority, ex parte B (A Minor) [1995]: A Tale of Two Judgments
Jesse Wall
7. R v Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust, ex parte L [1999]: Bournewood Fifteen Years On
Genevra Richardson
8. Re MB (An Adult: Medical Treatment) [1997] and St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust v S [1998]: The Dilemma of the ‘ Court-Ordered ’ Caesarean
Marie Fox and Kirsty Moreton
9. R v Department of Health, ex parte Source Informatics Ltd [1999]
Mark Taylor
10. McFarlane v Tayside Health Board [2000] and Cattanach v Melchior [2003]
Laura Hoyano
11. Chester v Afshar [2004]
Sarah Green
12. R (on the Application of Burke) v General Medical Council [2004]; Burke v United Kingdom [2006]:
Contemporaneous and Advance Requests: The Fight for Rights at the End of Life
Shaun D Pattinson
13. The Right to Die and the Right to Help: R (on the Application of Purdy) v Directorof Public Prosecutions [2009] and Its Legacy
Kate Greasley
14. Yearworth and Others v North Bristol NHS Trust [2009]
Loane Skene
15. A, B and C v Ireland [2010]
Imogen Goold