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Court of Appeal adjudicates high-profile custody battle
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- United Kingdom
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- December 6 2010
On 15 November 2010, the Court of Appeal was asked to adjudicate a high-profile custody battle over two children conceived by artificial insemination to a lesbian couple using donated sperm
RH v South London and Maudsley NHS Trust 2010
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- United Kingdom
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- December 6 2010
In RH v South London and Maudsley NHS Trust 2010, the Court of Appeal considered whether a restriction order on a mental health patient should have been continued in circumstances where the medical evidence was in support of an absolute discharge
Recent cases
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- United Kingdom
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- November 5 2010
In Petrus Jacobus Jooste v General Medical Council 2010, Dr Jooste applied for an interim suspension order made against him to be terminated on the grounds that he was not notified electronically of the hearing as he had requested (due to unreliability of mail to his address) and was therefore not in attendance at the hearing and it should have been adjourned
High Court rules on unwanted hysterectomy
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- United Kingdom
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- October 14 2010
On 29 September 2010, Mrs Justice Macur, sitting in the High Court, ruled that a 69 year old woman, referred to as "D", will be put under a general anaesthetic for six days, before undergoing an unwanted hysterectomy
HFEA to investigate unlicensed sperm donation sites following conviction for men accused of procuring sperm
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- United Kingdom
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- October 14 2010
Following the successful conviction on 17 September 2010 at Southwark Crown Court of two men found to have made £250k by procuring sperm for 800 women through an unlicensed sperm donation site, the HFEA is to investigate whether unlicensed dating-style websites used by thousands of women are breaking the law by offering what amounts to the illegal "procurement" of sperm
Medical assessment panel awards £90k under Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
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- United Kingdom
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- October 14 2010
In a recent confidential judgment, a Medical Assessment Panel awarded £90k under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme to Jackie Fletcher, whose son Robert was left with severe epilepsy and other neurological disabilities after being given the MMR vaccine
Samuel Harnarayan pleads guilty to unlawfully implying that he was a registered dentist
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- United Kingdom
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- October 14 2010
On 27 September 2010, Samuel Harnarayan pleaded guilty to unlawfully implying that he was a registered dentist at Bristol Magistrates Court
Recent cases
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- United Kingdom
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- September 1 2010
In A v (1) East Sussex County Council (2) Chief Constable of Sussex, the High Court held that the removal of a baby from her young mother with a police protection order (not a court order) was not a breach of the mother's human rights
Accusing child’s mother of murder was serious professional misconduct
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- United Kingdom
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- May 14 2010
The administrative court found that the GMC's Fitness to Practise Panel had provided inadequate reasons for their finding that a consultant paediatrician was guilty of serious professional misconduct after he had allegedly accused a mother of drugging and murdering one of her children
Claimant allowed to pursue claim against Health Authority for brain injury sustained in 1974 despite being statute barred
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- United Kingdom
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- May 14 2010
A Health Authority appealed against a decision that a clinical negligence claim by the claimant was not statute-barred
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- Workarea - Litigation
- Workarea - Healthcare
- Jurisdiction - United Kingdom
- Author - Cass Browning