20 Feb, 2018 Rights held up "at the hospital door"? A missed "tipping point" for Article 2 and the right to health By Kate Beattie Rights held up "at the hospital door"? A missed "tipping point" for Article 2 and the right to health in the Lopes de Sousa Fernandes v...
12 Jun, 2017 Law and Ethics at the Frontiers of Medicine and Science By Kate Beattie In the recent cryopreservation case of In re JS (A Child) [2016] EWHC 2859 (Fam); [2017] 4 WLR 1, the High Court considered the wishes of...
22 May, 2017 #healthyBrexit - is it "a view from the cliff edge"? By Kate Beattie We've all seen that bus and its pilloried claim that Brexit will return £350 million a week to the NHS. But beyond the slogans, MPs and...
24 Feb, 2017 Passle Series: Disability rights in the UK under CRPD scrutiny By Kate Beattie Doughty Street's Community Care and Health Team brings you expert analysis on the state of disability rights in the UK, as the UK...
09 Feb, 2017 Adolescents' rights in a digital age? UN CRC and Children's Commissioner call for digital citizenship and greater safeguards By Kate Beattie The rights of children during adolescence have been recognised in a new General Comment by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child,...
14 Oct, 2016 Concessions on "exemption/innovation" clause as Children and Social Work Bill returns to Lords By Kate Beattie The Children and Social Work Bill returns to the House of Lords next week with rival amendments seeking to address the controversial...
03 Jul, 2016 Individual funding requests and the exceptionality test By Kate Beattie The High Court has allowed a challenge to an individual funding refusal for a drug to treat a 17 year old girl suffering from narcolepsy...