It was ruled it would be permissible to sever and thus kill in a palliative, sympathetic manner the weaker twin to save the much stronger one. The case was ...

1 февр. 2021 г. · The birth of conjoined twins presented a legal and moral dilemma for the court of appeal that the judges involved describe as their most difficult case ever.

In cases where these organs cannot support two babies, both will die if they are not separated. However, the death of one twin is inevitable during surgery.

The parents of conjoined twins, M and J, appealed against a decision to allow an operation to surgically separate them which would result in the death of M.

8 янв. 2019 г. · The Court in Re A recognised that each twin was a separate person for the purposes of homicide and that both girls had to be accorded equal ...

This judgment holds that exceptional necessity may justify the taking of a life when an inescapable choice has to be made between two persons.

4 сент. 2024 г. · The fact that Mary is dependent upon Jodie, or the fact that twins may be interdependent if they share heart and lungs, should not lead the law ...

A 20 hour operation to separate the conjoined twins Jodie and Mary at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester ended at 5 am on 7 November with Jodie, the stronger ...

The case illustrates the difficulty of applying legal principles to unprecedented life-and-death decisions involving proposed medical interventions for ...

From the combined perspectives of law and medicine, the thesis argues that conjoined twins, as they possess a separate brain, should enjoy legal personality and ...