Transplantation Medicine in Paediatric Context II: Consent and Capacity

Closed workshop held on 6 December 2024, at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, funded by the John Fell Fund.

The closed workshop involved discussion with lawyers and clinicians from UK and Germany to explore the following issues:

  • How the law regulates children as donors or recipients of transplants?  
  • How conflict of interests or rights (between parents and children, between parents, and between families and medical professionals) are resolved in practice? 

The workshop involved four sessions, which explored four different themes about the legal framework in UK and Germany, the medical decision-making process in practice, and issues surrounding consent and research. The discussion adopted an interdisciplinary lens and comparative approach, drawing upon cast studies and examples from the two jurisdictions.

 

Full List of Closed Participants 

Lawyers

  1. The Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Ryder (Master, Pembroke College, University of Oxford)
  2. Dr. Farrah Raza (Stipendiary Lecturer in Law, Pembroke College, University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
  3. Ms Juliet Hearne (Barrister, Cornwall Street Chambers, Head of the Family Division) 
  4. Dr. Rebecca Limb (Lecturer in Law, University of Southampton)
  5. Prof. Shaun Pattison (Professor of Medical Law and Ethics, Durham Law School)
  6. Prof. Dr. Torsten Verrel (Professor of Law, Bonn University, Germany)
  7. Dr Christian Gunther (MPI for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, Germany)

Perspectives from the Clinic and Practice 

  1. Prof. James Neuberger (Consultant Physician, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Professor of Medicine, University of Birmingham) 
  2. Prof. John Forsythe (Organ Utilisation Consultant for NHSBT, Transplant Honorary Professor and Consultant Transplant Surgeon, University of Edinburgh) 
  3. Dr. Jenny Prüfe (Essen and Dusseldorf University)
  4. Dr. Joe Brierly (Consultant in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital) 
  5. Dr. Helen Jones (Consultant Children's Kidney Specialist (nephrologist) Great Ormond Street Hospital) 
  6. Prof. Dr Deidre Kelly (Professor of Paediatric Hepatology/Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist, University of Birmingham)
  7. Mr Martin Drage (Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital)
  1. Dr Isabel Quiroga (Consultant Transplant Surgeon, University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
  2. Prof. Douglas Thorburn (Transplant Physician, Royal Free Hospital London and Chair of Liver Advisory Group, NHS Blood and Transplant)
  3. Prof. Dr. (med.) Thomas Berg (Head of Hepatology, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Germany)
  4. Prof. Gurch Randhawa (Professor of Diversity in Public Health and Director of the Institute for Health Research at the University of Bedfordshire)
  5. Prof. David A. Jones (Director, Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford)
  6. Mr Scott Glover (NHS Renal Transplantation Unit, Oxford)

Project Research Assistant 

Ishani Mookherjee (D.Phil. in Law Candidate, University of Oxford)

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