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Abortion was decriminalised in New South Wales in October 2019. While New South Wales is the seventh jurisdiction in Australia to decriminalise abortion and regulate it under health legislation, the recent passage of the Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 (NSW) (the Act) saw the adoption of a number of principle-based amendments that distinguish it from abortion legislation in other Australian jurisdictions. This article critiques key sections of the Act regarding sex selection abortion, a doctor's duties in relation to offering a woman counselling, the distinct crime of abortion coercion, and the protection of conscience for health professionals. It also identifies where future research may assist us in understanding both the application of these new legal requirements, and the community's experiences with abortion.Truth-telling to cancer patients challenges health care providers in China. Providers confront a series of cultural, ethical, and legal dilemmas in terms of patients' right to know and autonomy. Underlying reasons for truth-telling dilemmas include traditional culture, the role of family, and ambiguity about patients' right to know in accordance with Chinese laws and regulations. These factors complicate ethical judgment by requiring interaction with traditional Chinese culture and laws before health care providers deliver bad news to patients with a range of conditions, including cancer. In this article ethical questions are raised, and strategies concerning breaking bad news are suggested for Chinese health care providers.This article highlights aspects of the medical condition Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) relevant to legal claims in negligence threatened by players of collision and contact sports in Australia against their sporting organisations. CTE is characterised by cognitive dysfunction, irritability, aggression, depression, short-term memory loss, heightened suicidality and ultimately death, which may, in advanced forms, be preceded by dementia and parkinsonism. It is neither the purpose nor intention of this article to consider each element of a negligence claim, but rather to provide a means to understand the foundational and factual basis for such a claim within a legal context. For the litigant the medical literature is foundational to establishing a legal connection between the playing of contact sport and cognitive dysfunction. As the High Court of Australia quoted with approval of a claim of negligent "failure to inform" "the non-disclosed risk must manifest itself into actual injury in order for a plaintiff to establish proximate causation".While knowledge about chronic amphetamine-induced psychosis and its similarity to schizophrenia is at an early stage, its incidence and ramifications are posing a serious issue for the criminal law. The condition has the potential in principle to result in findings of insanity/mental impairment and diminished responsibility, as well as to be significantly mitigating at the time of sentencing. However, difficult legal questions arise as to whether an ongoing (as against transient) chronic methamphetamine-induced psychosis constitutes a "disease of the mind" as well as complex public policy issues by reason of the condition being self-induced. This column reviews the law generally on the subject, as well as the ruling by Jagose J in R v Brackenridge [2019] NZHC 1004, and explores the ramifications of the reasoning in the ruling for decisions by courts outside New Zealand. It calls for further and more nuanced analysis of the ramifications of drug-induced psychoses being self-induced in the context of the law on criminal responsibility and culpability.In this column we explore the regulatory environment within which clinical trials involving new genome editing techniques are undertaken. Ostensibly, there is regulatory congestion in this area, with overlapping obligations through the national scheme for regulating gene technology, the national scheme for regulating the supply of therapeutic goods, and the human research ethics system, predominantly administered at the institutional level. In practice, however, the oversight of gene editing clinical trials is left almost entirely to human research ethics committees. Given the uncertain risks associated with such novel technologies, we conclude that it is opportune to reconsider the rigour of current Australian processes for assessing clinical trials involving gene-editing technology.Alcohol consumption during pregnancy carries known risks to the foetus in the form of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). One of the interventions for the prevention of FASD is the application of warning labels to packaged alcoholic beverages. Between 2011 and 2018, the Australian Government allowed the alcohol organisation, DrinkWise, to operate an industry self-regulatory scheme to provide alcohol producers with prototype warnings about drinking during pregnancy. selleck inhibitor In 2018, the government announced that it would be mandating alcohol and pregnancy warnings through Food Standards Australia New Zealand. This section argues that a proper appraisal of the DrinkWise Labelling Scheme at the outset would have demonstrated its inherent regulatory incapacity to operate as an effective health information policy. The DrinkWise Labelling Scheme is missing two essential elements of functional industry self-regulation a strong normative framework and mechanisms for norm creation, implementation and enforcement.The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety's Interim Report entitled Neglect, identified multiple failings in meeting Australia's care needs of older people. Many of these have been examined from both health and regulation-based perspectives. However, although some of the issues uncovered relate to potential criminal acts, relatively few prosecutions of individuals for abuse in aged care contexts take place. In addition to the social invisibility of the aged in our community investigators may experience considerable difficulties in utilising traditional processes for criminal investigation and prosecution in matters involving aged care institutions.