Healthcare Public law and Human Rights
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Our team of dedicated lawyers and medico-legal staff are experienced in dealing with many types of healthcare and public law matters often involving complex or unique situations. We often combine the skills of different individuals or departments in order to successfully represent our client's needs.
We have represented patients and their families in private and non-reported cases about contentious medical treatment or withdrawal of life-support. We have also represented clients in cases of public interest which have featured heavily in the media including the Luke Winston Jones right to life case and the Natallie Evans case involving the battle to save her frozen embryos.
Our media management department also supports the team ensuring clients are well advised about the prospect of media interest in their case and the subsequent management of coverage.
We have been involved in cases concerning:
- The right to life and the right to die including assisted suicide and euthanasia
- The right to consent to or refuse medical treatment
- Best interest declarations - making decisions on those that lack capacity
- Assisted conception and IVF treatment including The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act
- Organ retention or transplantation
- The use of new or experimental drugs or other treatments
- Coroners inquests
- Public and private health related Inquiries
- Judicial review - challenging decisions made and imposed by public authorities including central government, local authorities and public organisations
- Refusals to fund or sanction conventional or alternative treatments
- Hospital discharges and the use of waiting lists
- Issues about whether treatment is nursing or social care
- Actions involving the police
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0870 024 0558