Whose Right Is It Anyway? The Duties Owed to a Deceased and to Surviving Family Members When Dealing with a Corpse: Brennan v City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] 1 WLUK 429

Abstract This commentary considers the case of Brennan, in which surviving family members successfully brought a Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) claim against a hospital and a council for the way in which they both treated a body post-mortem. Their failure to freeze it led to such a state of decompositi...

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Published in:Medical law review 2022-02, Vol.30 (1), p.137-149
Main Authors: Davey, Tina, Mead, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cadaver
Damages
Dead bodies (Law)
Dignity
European Court of Human Rights
Family
Hospitals
Hospitals, Teaching
Human Rights
Humans
Postmortem changes
State Medicine
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