Source Currency: Volume 34, Issue 3, 1 July 2026. Med Law Rev (2026) 34 (3): 1. Articles: Between sexual autonomy and protection: siloed capacity and the drift towards risk regulation in A Local Authority v ZX [2026] EWCOP 3 Autonomy undermined: how NHS institutional culture fails pregnant patients Historicising the prohibition of vulval cutting in the UK: how race and medicine shaped the criminalization of female genital mutilation Situational status and moral incoherence in UK bio-law Biopolitics and reproductive autonomy in Singapore's Termination of Pregnancy Act 1974 Deferring to the regulator and prioritizing public health: British Standards Institute v RRR Manufacturing Pty Ltd, R (On The Application Of) [2024] EWCA Civ 530 The ticking of the (non-biological) clock for consent renewal: AA v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2026] EWHC 317 (Fam) Towards improved understandings of medical manslaughter: fatal medical error, accountability, and wider paths to learning Townsend v Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and the myth of the clinical carve out Welfare paternalism and the paradox of protection: towards a rights-based framework to mediate the deprivation of liberty of children Abortion law in the Crown Dependencies: liberalisation in the UK's small, independent neighbours Reviews Book Reviews: Passive patient culture in India: disrespect in law and medicine Book Reviews: Narratives of consent and reproductive subjects: tales of invisibility Book Reviews: Understanding parent blame: institutional failure and complex trauma. The Medical Law Review is established as an authoritative source of reference for academics, lawyers, legal and medical practitioners, law students and anyone interested in health care and the law. Primarily the Medical Law Review presents articles of international interest which provide thorough analyses and comment on the wide range of topical issues that are fundamental to this area of law. In addition it carries two commentary sections. The first concentrates on UK law and includes case reports and legislation summaries followed by analytical interpretation of the impact of new developments in medical law. The second section concentrates on recent medico-legal developments in the US, the Commonwealth and Europe. The Review also carries book reviews of relevant publications. Footnotes, where present, are bi-directional. This journal, along with other available UK law journals, can be searched in the All UK Law Journals file.
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