On Best Interests

Beyond Best Interests

I. The Problem with Best Interests: A Framework; a Justificatory Idiom; and a Problem ................................. 1192 A. Framework: The Three Dimensions of State Interventions Aimed at Influencing Reproduction .............................................................. 1192 B. Justificatory Idiom: Best Interests of the Resulting Child Justifications, Their Attraction and Prominence .....

Who Determines Children's Best Interests?

Treatment in patients’ best interests

A note on the current state of the law as regards balancing the autonomy, and personal values, of a mentally incapacitated patient against treatment plans with which they do not agree. The author summarises the outcomes of two medical treatment cases heard by the Court of Protection, with similar facts and different results, by way of adding to the advice to practitioners for their communicatio...

Do physicians recognize their own best interests?

Regulating Reproduction: The Problem with Best Interests*

Introduction ............................................................................... 424 I. The Regulation of Reproduction and the Attraction of (and Problem with) Best Interests Reasoning .................. 429 A. The Three Dimensions of State Interventions Aimed at Influencing Reproduction ............................ 430 B. The Prominence of Best Interests Reasoning in Family Law and...