Foreign Experience of Legal Regulation of the Right of Minors to independently make a Decision on granting Consent for Medical Intervention

Abstract

The subject of this work is the study of foreign experience in the normative consolidation of the right of minors to independently make decisions on granting consent to medical intervention. The author notes that, despite the substantial guarantees of prompt consideration of such cases provided for by the Code of Administrative Procedure of the Russian Federation, it is obvious that a delay in the implementation of medical intervention may entail serious consequences. In view of the above, the foreign experience of securing out-of-court procedures for obtaining such consent is of significant interest. The article considers examples of regulatory regulation used in certain European (the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Serbia) and North American (Canada, the United States of America) states.The article considers examples of regulatory regulation used in certain European (the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Serbia) and North American (Canada, the United States of America) states. During the research, the author used various methods of scientific cognition, both general scientific: analysis, synthesis, logical and structural-functional, and private scientific: formal legal, legal modeling method and comparative legal. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the author for the first time in Russian legal science conducted a comparative analysis of the normative consolidation of the right of minors to independently make decisions on granting consent to medical intervention. The author comes to the conclusion that the issue of the need to expand the possibilities of minors to give appropriate consent, in relation to the Russian Federation, requires separate study and in the process of this work, foreign experience may well be taken into account.