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Principles of Medical Law

Fourth Edition

Edited by Judith Laing and Jean McHale
Consultant Editors Sir Ian Kennedy and Andrew Grubb

A leading authority, providing an in-depth analysis of the whole spectrum of issues relating to medical law
Provides an accessible account of common law and statutory provisions governing healthcare provision in England and Wales, setting the law in context and critiquing its application
Engaging with questions of fundamental human rights in relation to medical law
Written by a team of leading academics and expert practitioners, who offer a balanced, trustworthy, and practical perspective
Recently cited in the Supreme Court in Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James and Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
Clear layout, extensive referencing, and careful indexing make this an indispensable research tool for practitioners and academics alike

New to this Edition:

Reform of the NHS in the Health and Social Care Act 2012
Developments in the Care Act 2014 and the duty of candour
Consideration of the implications of the new EU Clinical Trials Regulation
New cases including Supreme Court decisions in Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James and Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
Recent jurisprudence, including P v Cheshire West and developments relating to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Deprivation of Liberty safeguards
Major reform of the fitness to practice provisions concerning the General Medical Council

Principles of Medical Law

Fourth Edition

Edited by Judith Laing and Jean McHale
Consultant Editors Sir Ian Kennedy and Andrew Grubb

Description

Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in its field. Now in its fourth edition, it provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the common law and statutory provisions governing healthcare provision in England and Wales. It offers an authoritative and up-to-date account of medical law whilst also seeking to set the law in context and critique its application. The contributors include many of the leading academics and practitioners working in the area of medical law today, who together offer a balanced, reliable, and considered perspective. The clear layout, accessible writing style, extensive referencing, and detailed index make this an indispensable research tool for practitioners and academics alike.

Principles of Medical Law

Fourth Edition

Edited by Judith Laing and Jean McHale
Consultant Editors Sir Ian Kennedy and Andrew Grubb

Part 1. The health care system
1:Keith Syrett: The organisation of health care
2:Paula Case: Regulating health care professions
Part 2. Clinical negligence
3:Rachel Mulheron: Duties in contract and tort
4:Philippa Whipple QC and Philip Havers QC: Breach of duty
5:Stephen Todd: Actions arising from birth
6:Richard Goldberg: Causation and defences
7:Keith Syrett: Institutional liability
Part 3. Patients' rights
8:Jean McHale: Consent to treatment: the competent patient
9:Neil Allen and Sir James Munby: The test for capacity
10:Neil Allen and Sir James Munby: Consent to treatment: patients lacking capacity and children
11:Judith Laing and Nicola Glover-Thomas: Mental health law
12:Mark Taylor: Confidentiality and data protection
13:Jean McHale: Clinical research
Part 4. The law and reproduction
14:Michael Freeman: Medically assisted reproduction
15:Michael Freeman: Reproductive genetics
16:Emily Jackson: Abortion
Part 5. Medicinal products and devices
17:Christopher Hodges: The regulation of medicinal products and medical devices
18:Richard Goldberg: Products liability
Part 6. Regulating human material
19:Jean McHale: The legal regulation of the use of human material
20:Amanda Warren-Jones: Patenting and the human body
Part 7. The end of life
21:Jonathan Herring: Ending life
22:Murray Earle: Death

Principles of Medical Law

Fourth Edition

Edited by Judith Laing and Jean McHale
Consultant Editors Sir Ian Kennedy and Andrew Grubb

Author Information

Edited by Judith Laing, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol, and Jean McHale, Professor of Health Care Law, University of Birmingham

Consultant Editors Sir Ian Kennedy and Andrew Grubb

Dr Judith Laing is a Reader in the School of Law at the University of Bristol. She has published extensively in a number of peer-reviewed journals and edited collections on aspects of mental health, medical law, and criminal law and justice. As well as being involved with previous editions of Principles of Medical Law, her books include Care or Custody? Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Criminal Justice System (OUP, 1999) and Criminal Justice, Mental Health and the Politics of Risk (edited with Gray & Noaks; Routledge, 2001). Judith is a member of the Editorial Board of the Medical Law Review and Journal of Medical Law and Ethics, and she has previously held editorial positions with the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law and the Journal of Law and Society.

Jean V. McHale is Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Centre for Health Law, Science & Policy at the University of Birmingham. Her books include Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege (Routledge, 1993); Health Care Law: Texts, Cases and Materials (with Fox) (2nd ed. 2007, Sweet and Maxwell); Law and Nursing (3rd ed. with Tingle, Butterworths, Heinmann, 2007); Principles of Mental Health Law (edited with Bartlett, Gostin, Fennell, and McKay) (OUP, 2010); Routledge Handbook on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (edited with Gale) (Routledge, 2015); and European Health Law: Themes and Implications (with Hervey) (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Contributors:

Professor Keith Syrett
Professor of Public Health Law, Cardiff University

Dr Paula Case
Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool

Professor Rachael Mulheron
Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London

Philippa Wipple QC
Barrister, One Crown Office Row

Philip Havers QC
Barrister, One Crown Office Row

Professor Stephen Todd
Professor of Common Law, University of Nottingham

Professor Richard Goldberg
Durham Law School, University of Durham

Professor Jean McHale
Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy, University of Birmingham

Neil Allen
Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers; Lecturer, University of Manchester

Sir James Munby
Chairman of the Law Commission

Dr Judith Laing
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol

Nicola Glover-Thomas
Professor of Medical Law, University of Manchester

Dr Mark Taylor
Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

Professor Michael Freeman
Faculty of Law, University College London

Professor Emily Jackson
Professor of Law and Head of Department, London School of Economics

Professor Christopher Hodges
Professor of Justice Systems, University of Oxford

Dr Amanda Warren-Jones
Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

Professor Jonathan Herring
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Dr Murray Earle
Researcher and Writer, Edinburgh

Principles of Medical Law

Fourth Edition

Edited by Judith Laing and Jean McHale
Consultant Editors Sir Ian Kennedy and Andrew Grubb

Reviews and Awards

"Authoritative, detailed and scholarly... an essential purchase for any practitioner involved in any aspect of the law pertaining to healthcare." - Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers

"It is a tribute to the merits of this book that one, while consulting it regularly, scarcely noticed that six years had lapsed since its first arrival... This book remains a monumental work, comprehensive in its coverage and apparently seamless in its presentation, thanks to skilful editing... For anyone wishing to gain a sound academic understanding of medical law, this remains the work to turn to." - B Mahendra, New Law Journal

"This latest text is useful to the Practitioner because it considers in depth difficult issues... the layout is clear with separate parts, chapters and paragraphs for ease of reference. There is a wealth of footnotes and a comprehensive table of cases and statutes with an excellent index. The test of any substantial law text such as this is whether it becomes a leading work in the subject. This seems assured for Principles of Medical Law." - Jarlath Spellman, Barrister, The Bar Review

"An outstanding piece of scholarship ... high in quality throughout, well internally cross-referenced and very well written ... By some distance it is the best textbook in the area." - Journal of Law and Medicine

"This authoritative and detailed reference work will be an invaluable resource to practitioners, academics, and students alike." - European Journal of Health Care Law

"Across almost 1,300 pages, seven parts and twenty-two articles, the book offers detailed analysis and commentary on a formidably broad range of other issues, from the organisation and regulation of health care, to actions arising from birth, to consent to treatment, to the regulation of medicinal products and medical devices â and of course, much more. Here is a field fraught with uncertainties and these too are dealt with in a measured, frank and analytical manner." - Phillip Taylor MBE, The Barrister

"Reviews from previous edition A comprehensive and authoritative guide to the present law ... any practising or academic lawyer would benefit from access to a copy." - Cambridge Law Journal

"The involvement of different academics and legal practitioners sets this apart from other medical law books, and it is thus an important contribution to existing literature in the field." - Medical Law Review

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