Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law Podcast

About Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law Podcast

This podcast complements the textbook, Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law, which is edited by Christopher Johnston QC and Sophia Roper QC, with chapters authored by a team of 27 barristers at Serjeants' Inn Chambers and published by Bloomsbury Professional in 2022. It places medical decision-making in its legal context and provides practical guidance on the most ethically challenging cases that face the courts. It explains how the Mental Capacity Act works in practice and how the courts and lawyers wrestle with and resolve problems relating to the very essence of life: what is life? what is an acceptable quality of life? what treatment is so burdensome that it should not be attempted? These questions are posed, not in the abstract but, in real – often desperate, often urgent – situations. This series, hosted by Christopher and Sophia, will feature different authors in each episode, looking further and discussing the various topics covered by the book. To find out more about their practices, please see our website here: https://bit.ly/3ITGwrO To find out more about the book, please click here: https://bit.ly/3bI2DoJ

Publisher

Serjeants' Inn Chambers

Category

government

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jul 2022

Latest episode

3 Apr 2023

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Apr 2023

   S1E3 - Clerk's perspective: Serious Medical Treatment Cases

   In this episode, Christopher Johnston KC is joined by Tom O'Connor, Clerking Team Leader at Serjeants' Inn Chambers. Whilst Tom is not an author of Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law, he plays a key part in the work mentioned in its chapters. Together they discuss the journey of a Court of Protection case, with a particular focus on urgent/out-of-hours matters, and what led Tom to his interest in the Court of Protection. The discussion offers insight into the process of making an emerg...

2. 

   21 Sept 2022

   S1E2 - Assisted Reproduction

   In this episode, Christopher Johnston KC is joined by Claire Watson KC to discuss medical treatment decisions related to assisted reproduction, as discussed in chapter 11 of the new fourth edition of Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law. Chris and Claire look at XX v Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, Warren v Care Fertility Ltd and the recent case of Jennings v HFEA while discussing the difference between Californian surrogacy versus UK surrogacy, the interpretation of legislation by judges...

3. 

   10 Aug 2022

   S1E1 - Deciding for Others – Children

   In this episode Christopher Johnston QC is joined by co-editor, Sophia Roper QC, to discuss medical treatment decisions for minors, as discussed in chapter 4 of the new fourth edition of Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law. Chris and Sophia consider the process by which the courts, including the appellate courts, reach decisions in a wide range of difficult cases including that of Tafida Raqeeb, where the parental views prevailed over those of the hospital Trust. Read more about Sophia's...

4. 

   22 Jul 2022

   Introduction

   Podcast hosts, Christopher Johnston QC and Sophia Roper QC, outline what the first series of this Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law podcast will cover.

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