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Child consent and the law: an insight and discussion into the law relating to consent and competence
Child: Care, Health and Development, 2006AbstractBackground The law governing consent for children is not very clear. A child can consent to treatment but usually in practice is unable to refuse it. Even if both the child and parents refuse treatment, courts are reluctant to accept this, particularly if it is in the best interest of the child.Discussion In order to consent to treatment, a ...
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Competence by consequence: ambiguity and incoherence in the law.
Medicine and law, 2004There is an ambiguity of principle delivered by those legal judgements which have considered the issue of whether the level of patients' decision-making capacity should vary in accordance with the seriousness of risks associated with the procedure subject to decision, particularly in decisions to refuse life-saving treatment.
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A General Law on Administrative Procedure, Legislative Competence and Judicial Competence
European Public Law, 2013The desirability having a general law on administrative procedure has been debated in the past and has now come back on the agenda, in part at least because of support from the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament. If such a law, or something equivalent thereto, is developed there will be a range of issues to address concerning its ...
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Criminal Environmental Law and Community Competence
European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 2003Summary: The Treaty on European Union is divided into “pillars”: the original pillar of Community law (the “first pillar”), and two pillars establishing intergovernmental co-operation between Member States on the matters which they cover: common foreign and security policy (the “second pillar”) and police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters ...
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The EU as a Federal Order of Competences and the Private Law
2014This chapter first discusses regulatory private law in general and European regulatory private law in particular. It then uses three parameters — ‘scope’, ‘limits’, and ‘intensity’ — to examine the relationship between the two legal orders as it stands today with the possible impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the competence order.
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Veterinary Medical Competence and the Law
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1978openaire +2 more sources