Sonia Allan

Journal of Law and Medicine update: Vol 28 Pt 2
This Part of the Journal of Law and Medicine includes the following articles: “The Regulation and Governance of Clinical Trials: Past and Present Considerations to Ensure Ethical Treatment of Human Participants” – Grace Borsellino, Patrick Foong and Sonia Allan; “Scientific Uncertainty and Guarantee of Supply of Medicines and Healthcare Products during the Crisis Caused by the SARS-CoV-2 in Spain” – Carlos del Castillo-Rodríguez and Silvia Enríquez-Fernández; “Parental Refusal of Treatment and Children’s Rights in Nigeria” – Titilayo Oyenihun Aderibigbe and Amarachi Chizaram Okonkoh; “Guiding Genomic Research: Australia’s National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research” – Belinda Bennett, Elizabeth Dallaston, Fiona McDonald, Andrew McGee, Shih-Ning Then and Bethany Allen; “Australia after Bawa-Garba: Does Reflective Learning Remain Tenable for Health Care Practitioners?” – Christopher D Mills; “Epidemiology of Offences against Health in the Republic of Kazakhstan: 2015–2019” – Oxana Tsigengagel, Nataliya Glushkova, Vugar Mammadov, Zaituna Khismetova, Meruert Gazaliyeva, Zhanara Ibrayeva and Yuliya Semenova; “The Doctrine of Double Effect and Potential Criminal Liability of Medical Practitioners in Australia” – Scott Davison; “The Strategy of Evaluation Automatism for Disability Assessment: A Pragmatic Choice to Simplify the Decision-making Process in the Italian Welfare System” – Giuseppe Consolazio; “Australian Medicare Benefits” – Bachier Mawassi; “Workers’ Compensation, Return to Work, Behavioural Health and COVID-19 in Australia” – Robert Guthrie, Robert Aurbach and Marina Ciccarelli; and “‘Equality’, the ‘Capability Approach’ and the Ethical Health Care Paradigm: The Interface” – Abhay Vir Singh Kanwar and Mia Mahmudur Rahim.
Also in this Part are the following sections: Editorial: “Human Challenge Trials: Ethical and Legal Issues for COVID-19 Research” – Ian Freckelton QC; Legal Issues: “Sex Therapy as a Reasonable and Necessary Support for Persons with a Disability” – Ian Freckelton QC; Nursing and Midwifery Issues: “Patients’ Access to Care During COVID-19 and the Role of Nurse Practitioners in Australia” – Jane Currie; Public Health Law Issues: “COVID-19: Public Health Emergency Powers and Accountability Mechanisms in Australia” – Paula O’Brien and Eliza Waters; Genomic Law Issues: “Pathways, Processes and Protections: Australia’s Clinical and Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Spaces” – Jan Charbonneau and Dianne Nicol; Health Law Reporter: “Supported Decision-Making for People Living with Dementia: An Examination of Four Australian Guardianship Laws” – Meredith Blake, Cameron Stewart, Pia Castelli- Arnold and Craig Sinclair; and Book Review: “The Assassination of Barbara O’Neill”, by Michael O’Neill.
Journal of Law and Medicine update: Vol 26 Pt 2
This issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine includes the following articles: “The Impact of the Law in Helping or Hindering Fertility Preservation for Children with Cancer Facing Gonadotoxic Therapies” – Sonia Allan, Debra Gook and Yasmin Jayasinghe; “To Mandate or Not to Mandate: A Review of Mandatory Reporting of Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect” – Natalie A MacCormick; “Domestic and Family Violence, Reproductive Coercion and the Role for Law” – Heather Douglas and Katherine Kerr; “Legality of Embryonic Gene Editing in Australia” – Michelle Taylor-Sands and Christopher Gyngell; “An Ethics of Care Approach to Regulating Surrogacy” – James Cameron; “Misconduct, Self-inflicted Injury, and Suicide in Workers’ Compensation: A Review of the Australian Legal Framework” – Victoria Lambropoulos and Robert Guthrie; “Impostors and Impersonators: Fake Health Practitioners and the Law” – Ian Freckelton QC; “Data Custodians and the Decision-making Process: Releasing Data for Research” – Carolyn Adams, Judy Allen and Felicity Flack; “Discussing Voluntary Assisted Dying” – Carolyn Johnston and James Cameron; “The ‘Ice’ Storm: Problems with Expert Evidence on the Effects of Methamphetamine” – Jacqueline Horan and Daniel Thomas; “Mercury Pollution from Coal-Fired Power Plants: A Critical Analysis of the Australian Regulatory Response to Public Health Risks” – Grace Bramwell, Felicity Wilson and Thomas Faunce; “Transferring Health Big Data within the European Legal Framework: What Role for National Healthcare Services?” – Davide Golinelli, Fabrizio Toscano, Andrea Bucci and Gherardo Carullo; and “The Coroner’s Role in the Prevention of Elder Abuse: A Study of Australian Coroner’s Court Cases Involving Pressure Ulcers in Elders” – Catherine Anne Sharp, Jennifer Sarah Schulz Moore and Mary-Louise MacLaws.
Also in this Part are the following sections: Editorial: “The 1628 Vasa Inquest in Sweden: Learning Contemporary Lessons for Effective Death Investigation” – Ian Freckelton QC; Legal Issues: “Alternatives to Compulsory Detention and Treatment and Coercive Practices in Mental Health Settings” – Piers Gooding and Bernadette McSherry; Medical Issues: “The Investigations into What Happened at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital – Did the Coroner’s Process Help?” – David Ranson; and Medical Law Reporter: “Legal Strategies to Cure the Plastic Planet: Corporate Marriage and Public Health Regulation of Single-Use Non-Biodegradable Plastics” – Angela Gock, Edward Dale, Lucina Ou-Yang, Sally Wheeler and Thomas Faunce. There is also a review of the following book: “The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire” by Chloe Hooper – reviewed by Ian Freckelton QC.
Journal of Law and Medicine update: March 2013
The latest Part of JLM is full of interesting articles and sections, including “Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and the law in Australia: The need for awareness and concern to translate into urgent action” – Ian Freckelton SC; “A right to refuse: Legal aspects of dealing with intoxicated patients who refuse treatment” – Lisa Butson, Mandy Shircore and Ben Butson; “Property rights in human gametes in Australia” – Vanessa White; “Back to the future: Prohibiting surrogacy for singles, same-sex and shorter-term heterosexual couples in Queensland” – Malcolm K Smith, Lindy Willmott, Pip Trowse and Ben White; “Cain v Australian Red Cross Society: The case for universal blood donation reform” – Rodney Croome and Benedict Bartl; “Criminal responsibility for the non-disclosure of HIV-positive status before sexual activity” – Joanna Manning; “‘Forced sterilisation’: Clarifying and challenging intuitions and models” – Malcolm Parker, plus much more!
Journal of Law and Medicine update: December 2011
The latest issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine includes articles on global artificial photosynthesis, Sub-Saharan African randomised clinical trials into male circumcision and HIV transmission, the release of donor information to donor-conceived individuals and the health problems experienced by victims of trafficking in persons in Australia. There is also a wide range of section notes including Legal Issues, Bioethical Issues, Nursing Issues and Medical Law Reporter, plus much more.