The Advance Directive (or Living Will)

Age Concern , The Living Will: Consent to treatment at the end of life. Institute of Gerontology and Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.

Alldridge P. (1992) Let me die: my mother insists. N. L. J. 142, 1691.

Alschuler A. (1992) Right to die. N. L. J. 142, 1637.

Gordon Ashton (1995) Elderly People and the Law. Butterworths, pp. 191–8.

Berger A. S. (1993) Dying and Death in Law and Medicine. Praeger.

Brennan C. (1993) The right to die. N.L.J. 143, 1041.

Bernard Dickens (1992) Medicine and the Law. Dartmouth.

Andrew Grubb (1994) Decision-making and Problems of Incompetence. Wiley.

House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics, House of Lords session 1993–1994, H.L. Paper 21, 31 January 1994. Debated Hansard, House of Lords, vol. 554, vols. 1344–1412, 9 May 1994.

Ian Kennedy Andrew Grubb (1989) Medical Law: Text and materials. Butterworth, pp. 1117–55. (A good exposition of the situation in the USA.)

Korgaonkar G. Tribe D. (1992) Living wills: their legal status. S. J. 136, 960.

Lanham D. (1990) Right to choose to die with dignity. Crim. L. J. 14, 401.

Law Commission (1995): Consultation paper no. 128: Mentally Incapacitated Adults and Decision-making: a new jurisdiction; Consultation paper no. 129: Medical Treatment and Research. No. 231: Report on Mental Incapacity. Law Commission, HMSO, especially paras. 5.14–5.39, pp. 71–82 and pp. 226–7.

Denzil Lush (1993) A living will precedent. Eagle (Age Concern) 3 (2), 4–7. (Example of a form. Also printed in Gordon Ashton (1995) Elderly People and the Law, Butterworth, appendix VII. Mason and McCall (infra) Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents, vol. 31, form 1289 [2434].)

Mason McCall Law and Medical Ethics, pp. 450–51 (Secimen living will.) See also Denzil Lush (supra). The Voluntary Euthanasia Society has specimen forms available.

Medical Ethics Today (1993) Institute of Medical Ethics.

Morgan D. (1995) On mental incapacity. N. L. J. 145, 352.

Munir E. (1993) Consent to treatment: rules for mentally disordered patients. 117 S. G. 502.

Report of BMA Working Party on Advance Directives 1988. BMA Statement on Advance Directives, November 1992, revised January 1994.

Alec Samuels (1994) The patient is in a very poor state: Is it lawful to refuse treatment or to discontinue treatment? Med. Sci. Law 34, 227.

Julie Stone (1995) Withholding life-sustaining treatment. N. L. J. 145, 354.

Sutcliffe F. (1992) Medicine Law. Pluto Press.

Tulley P. (1992) Towards a wider view of informed consent to medical treatment. P. N. 8, 75.