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Moral Authority In English And American Abortion Law, Joanna Erdman
Moral Authority In English And American Abortion Law, Joanna Erdman
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In R. (on the application of Axon) v. Secretary of State for Health & Another, the English High Court affirmed that young women are entitled to seek and receive sexual health care, including abortion care, without parental notification. This chapter examines the Court’s use of comparative constitutional authorities in its reasoning, focusing on the rejection of American authorities. Contrast and rejection, it is argued, can be an exercise in self-reflection, revealing how a court understands its own constitutional approach. Aversive constitutionalism presents opportunities to deconstruct claimed similarities and differences in constitutional approaches, to uncover and contest characteristics and assumptions otherwise …
Demythologizing Phosita: Applying The Non-Obviousness Requirement Under Canadian Patent Law To Keep Knowledge In The Public Domain & Foster Innovation, Matthew Herder
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The Supreme Court of Canada recently revised the doctrine of non-obviousness in a pharmaceutical “selection patent” case, Apotex Inc. v. Sanofi-Synthelabo Canada Inc. Although cognizant of changes to the same doctrine in the United States and the United Kingdom, a critical flaw in how the doctrine is being applied in Canada escaped the Court’s attention. Using content analysis methodology, this article shows that Canadian courts frequently fail to characterize the “person having ordinary skill in the art” (PHOSITA) for the purpose of the obviousness inquiry. The article argues that this surprisingly common analytical mistake betrays a deep misunderstanding of innovation, …
The Manitoba College Of Physicians And Surgeons Position Statement On Withholding And Withdrawal Of Life-Sustaining Treatment (2008): Three Problems And A Solution, Jocelyn Downie, Karen Mcewen
The Manitoba College Of Physicians And Surgeons Position Statement On Withholding And Withdrawal Of Life-Sustaining Treatment (2008): Three Problems And A Solution, Jocelyn Downie, Karen Mcewen
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The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (CPSM) recently issued a Statement on Withholding and Withdrawl of Life-Sustaining Treatment (2008). The College should be given enormous credit for trying to provide guidance with respect to physicians' obligations in an area of great confusion and controversy. Unfortunately, however, there are some very serious flaws in the Statement. In this paper, we describe three major problems with it that we believe make the case for the claim that the Statement must be revised. We then provide a revised statement that, if adopted, could represent significant progress as it would provide: greater …