Mature teenagers and medical intervention revisited: a right to consent, a wrong to refuse

Heywood, Rob (2008) Mature teenagers and medical intervention revisited: a right to consent, a wrong to refuse. Common Law World Review, 37 (2). pp. 191-203. ISSN 1473-7795

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Abstract

This article revisits the issue of adolescent autonomy. It explores the differences between consent and refusal and analyses the problems which are encountered when age is used as the sole factor in delineating important legal rights. The paper explores why the law has developed in the way it has, highlights the consequences of the gulf which may exist between the law in theory and medicine in practice, and assesses the current status of the policy considerations which underpin the law regarding adolescents' right to consent on one hand, and the parallel right of refusal on the other.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Depositing User:	Julie Frith
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2010 09:32
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 03:35
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10797
DOI:	10.1350/clwr.2008.37.2.171

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