1. The rationale and method of revisiting medical law cases; 2. Adams: life-shortening pain relief; 3. Gillick: consent from a child; 4. Bland: patients in a vegetative state; 5. Re MB: refusal of treatment in late pregnancy; 6 Conclusion: revisiting five further cases

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Shaun D. Pattinson is Professor of Medical Law and Ethics and was the founding Director of Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences) at Durham University, UK. His publications include two sole authored books, Influencing Traits Before Birth (Ashgate, 2002; reissued 2017) and Medical Law and Ethics (5th edn Sweet & Maxwell, 2017), and a book co-edited with Patrick Capps, Ethical Rationalism and the Law (Hart Publishing, 2017). He is a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which is the UK’s leading bioethics committee, Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and Royal Society of Biology, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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