Health and social care
Medical law
Medical law is at the heart of what we do at Capsticks. Every one of our lawyers is a healthcare specialist so we are not learning on your time or reinventing the wheel. We just do what we are good at - providing clear, reliable advice time after time.
We work with clients across the country helping them address a broad range of issues from responding to routine non-contentious matters such as a patient’s or their parent’s/guardian’s right to access their medical records, to handling complex, sensitive and high profile cases involving consent to treatment, capacity and Children’s Act issues – as well as everything in between. If you do not see the service you need in the list below please call us and ask because we will be able to help.
Consent to treatment
- Religious beliefs and Jehovah witnesses
- Treatment of children
- HIV status and treatment issues
- Best interest decisions and treatment under the Mental Capacity Act
- Treatment and the Human Rights Act
- Protection of vulnerable adults
Issues concerning children
- Safeguarding children
- Providing treatment to children against the wishes of parents
- Protection of the unborn child
- Human fertilisation, embryology and surrogacy
Exceptional treatment and funding issues
- Eligibility criteria
- Continuing/community care
- Funding responsibilities and overseas treatment
- Innovative working methods
Other areas
- Human tissue and testing
- Retention of organs
- Wills and family disputes
- Patient property
- Nuisance behaviour/ASBOs
- Death certification and disposal of body parts
Medical law partners
Gerard Hanratty
Majid Hassan
Philip Hatherall
Francis Lyons
Peter Marquand
Alison Morley (Managing Director)
Janice Smith (consultant)
Rob Wilson