A Rationale of Criminal Negligence

Iran and England Criminal System’s Approach to Conducts Caused by Negligence and Recklessness

Mens Rea (Mental element) merely doesn’t consist the people who decide to violate the law or knowingly their conducts may create prohibited result, rather in some cases can encompass some people who should foresee risk of their conduct. Recklessness and Negligence are the most obvious examples of fault (Shortcoming) in Iran and England criminal systems which can create criminal liability. Now...

Defining a policy rationale for the criminal regulation of reproductive technologies.

On the heels of extensive public and political debate, controversy and criticism, Bill C-56, An Act respecting assisted human reproduction, was introduced in the House of Commons on May 9, 2002. Through this bill, Parliament has proposed to regulate practices associated with reproductive technologies by relying on its criminal law jurisdiction. Certain scientific activities are altogether prohi...

Professional Negligence

Medical negligence in orthopaedic surgery: a review of 130 consecutive medical negligence reports.

Payments by the NHS Litigation Authority continue to rise each year, and reflect an increase in successful claims for negligence against NHS Trusts. Information about the reasons for which Trusts are sued in the field of trauma and orthopaedic surgery is scarce. We analysed 130 consecutive cases of alleged clinical negligence in which the senior author had been requested to act as an expert wit...

A decade of clinical negligence in ophthalmology

BACKGROUND To present an overview of the clinical negligence claims for ophthalmology in the National Health Service (NHS) in England from 1995 to 2006. To compare ophthalmic subspecialties with respect to claim numbers and payments. METHODS All the claims on the NHS Litigation Authority database for ophthalmology for the period 1995 to 2006 were analysed. Claims were categorised by ophthalmi...