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Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law PodcastAuthor: Serjeants' Inn Chambers
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 Language: en-us Genres: Government Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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S1E3 - Clerk's perspective: Serious Medical Treatment Cases
Episode 3
Monday, 3 April, 2023
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 emergency application to the court and points for counsel and clients to consider along the way.Read more about Chris' practice here: https://bit.ly/3ANjO2PRead more about Tom here: http://bit.ly/3Yk8ymlSerjeants' Inn frequently deals with urgent occurrences such as injunctions and provides a twenty-four-hour service for matters requiring immediate assistance. For help outside our normal working hours of 08.30 to 18.00 please call our normal office number 020 7427 5000 which is constantly monitored.While every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of these podcasts, no responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action as a result of any statement in it can be accepted by those speaking or Chambers.
