This revised and updated edition explores the law relating to both general principles and specialist areas in a jargon-free, easy to understand way. It uses examples and scenarios to illustrate key points and covers:
-Different forms of consent
-The duty of care to inform
-Determining mental capacity
-Disputes with parents
-Determining 'best interests'
-Research using children
-Consent and the scope of professional practice.

The text is intended for all health professionals, health service managers and patient groups and their representatives.


Bridgit Dimond MA, LLB, DSA, AHSM, Barrister-at-law is Emeritus Professor of the University of Glamorgan


'This second, updated and improved, edition now includes the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and surrounding issues. Short, descriptive paragraphs are supplemented with examples and information from real life situations and case studies. These examples are superbly illustrative of the points being made and help greatly in providing a relevant context for health professionals. A wide variety of topics are covered, ranging from fertility treatment to organ removal, euthanasia to mental capacity. At the end of each chapter there is a good range of reference material for further investigation if required. A very good, and very succinct, overview is provided
by way of conclusion to the book and this brings together many of the strands discussed within
the book...This text provides clarity to an otherwise complex topic'.
International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation.