Abstract
Six years have passed since Margot Brazier took over the editorship of The Medical Law Review and published her seminal leading article.1 The title of that article clearly signalled its purpose—which was to analyse what she referred to as the ‘sometimes cataclysmic’ changes in medical law that had occurred during the previous tenancy of the editorial chair. Perhaps things have calmed down a trifle in the more recent past—a feature which, if true, can be attributed to the spate of legislation that has been devoted to controlling the aftermath of the several scandals that beset British medicine at the turn of the century.2 This, however, is not to say that medical law is now a sea of tranquillity. Textbook after textbook testifies to the travails of those who have been struggling with new editions—as Professor Brazier, herself, says: Rarely a day passes without media coverage of some new controversy surrounding medical practice or medical ethics … [and] … [a]t every level of medical practice, law plays a role. Doctors cannot escape the reach of the law.3
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