MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECTS OF REPRODUCTION AND PARENTHOOD
ADDENDUM
Some of the discussion of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 in is unclear as to the distinction between the precise wording and the spirit of the Act. For the avoidance of doubt:
Section 4(1)(b) admits the possibility of donor insemination in private without the cover of a licence although the probable intention of the Act was to encourage the use of licensed clinics. Thus, while surrogacy is indirectly under the control of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority insofar as it requires donor insemination, such control is only partial (page 260).
Section 28(2) is unconditional as to the status of the operator. Thus, the results of privately arranged inseminations are included in the section but, reading the section as a whole, HFEA would probably perceive it as requiring licensed treatment to be fully effective (page 215).
Titles in the Series:
A Patients Right to Know: Information Disclosure, the Doctor and the Law
Sheila A.M. McLean, University of Glasgow
New Reproductive Techniques: A Legal Perspective
Douglas J. Cusine, University of Aberdeen
Intersections: Women on Law, Medicine and Technology
Edited by Kerry Petersen, La Trobe University
Law Reform and Human Reproduction
Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean, University of Glasgow
Legal and Ethical Issues in the Management of the Dementing Elderly
Mary Gilhooly, University of Glasgow
Legal Issues in Human Reproduction
Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean, University of Glasgow
Mental Illness: Prejudice, Discrimination and the Law
Tom Campbell, Australian National University, Canberra and
Chris Heginbotham, Riverside Mental Health Trust, London
Pregnancy at Work
Noreen Burrows, University of Glasgow
Changing People: The Law and Ethics of Behaviour Modification
Alexander McCall Smith, University of Edinburgh
Health Resources and the Law: Who Gets What and Why
Robert G. Lee, Cardiff Law School and Frances H. Miller, University of Boston
Surrogacy and the Moral Economy
Derek Morgan, Cardiff Law School
Family Planning Practice and the Law
Kenneth McK. Norrie, University of Strathclyde
Mental Health Law in Context: Doctors Orders?
Michael Cavadino, University of Sheffield
Artificial Reproduction and Reproductive Rights
Athena Liu, University of Hong Kong
Medicine, Law and Social Change
Leanna Darvall, La Trobe University
Abortion Regimes
Kerry A. Petersen, La Trobe University
Human In Vitro Fertilization: A Case Study in the Regulation of Medical Innovation
Jennifer Gunning, Agricultural and Food Research Council and
Veronica English, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
Law Reform and Medical Injury Litigation
Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean, University of Glasgow
Legal Issues in Obstetrics
Vivienne Harp wood, Cardiff Law School
Competence to Consent to Medical Treatment
John Devereux, Griffith University
Death, Dying and the Law
Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean, University of Glasgow
The Contractual Reallocation of Procreative Resources and Parental Rights: The Natural Endowment Critique
William Joseph Wagner, The Catholic University of America
Clinical Resource Allocation
Christopher Heginbotham, Riverside Mental Health Trust, London and
Peter Mumford, Kings Fund College, London
Designer Babies
Robert Lee, Cardiff Law School and Derek Morgan, Cardiff Law School
Contemporary Legal Issues in Law, Medicine and Ethics
Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean, University of Glasgow
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Australian cases
Battersby v. Tottman and State of South Australia (1985) 37 SASR 524; 92
Chamberlain v. The Queen (1983) 46 ALR 493; [No 2] (1983) 153 CLR 521 (HC); 382 n.30
Doodeward v. Spence (1908) 6 CLR 406; 177
Elizabeth, Re (1989) 13 Fam LR 47; 78 n.40, n.42
Ellis v. Wallsend District Hospital (1990) 2 Med LR 103; 91 n.105
F, F v. F, Re (1986) Unreported, Supreme Court of Victoria, 2 July; 311
F v. R (1983) 33 SASR 189, SC; 95
Jane, Re (1989) 13 Fam LR 47; 78
K v. Minister for Youth and Community Service and another [1982] 1 NSWLR 311; 53 n.52
L and M, Re (1993) 17 Fam LR 357; 79 n.46
Marion, Re (1992) 17 Fam LR 336; 79 n.45
R. v. Cogley [1989] VR 799; 9, 29 n.52
R. v. Davidson [1969] VR 667; 113
R. v. Harris (1989) 35 A Crim R 146; 9
R. v. Hutty [1953] VR 338; 388
R. v. McGuiness (1989) 35 A Crim R 146; 9
R v. Wald and others (1972) 3 DCR (NSW)25; 113 n.23
Rogers v. Whitaker (1992) 109 ALR 625, [1993] 4 Med LR 79; 91 n.100, 92
Secretary, Department of Health and Community Services (N.T.) v. J.W.B. and S.M.B. (1992) 66 ALJR 300; 78 n.43, n.44
Teenager, Re a (1988) 13 Fam LR 85; 78, 83 n.63
Watt v. Rama [1972] VR 353; 146 n.17, n.18
Canadian cases
Baby R, Re (1989) 53 DLR (4th) 69; 174 n.166