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Legal documents
- Abortion Act 1967
- Department of Health and Social Care. 14 January 2019. Approval of home use for the second stage of early medical abortion. Available from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/768059/Approval_of_home_use_for_the_second_stage_of_early_medical_abortion.pdf (Accessed 1st January 2022).
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- Health and Care Bill 71, 2022
- Mental Capacity Act 2005, ss.1-3.
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Case law
- Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
- Duce v Worcester Acute Hospitals NHS Trust [2018] EWCA Civ
- Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11
- R v. (Christian Concern) v SSHSC [2020] EWCA Civ 1329