Subject-Matter Index

Capacity to make decisions as to medical treatment. See Medical treatment—refusal of treatment

Care costs. See TORT (Personal injuries—damages)

Drug offences. See CRIMINAL LAW (Drugs)

Fentanyl. See CRIMINAL LAW (Drugs—importation), (Drugs—possession with intent to supply)

Importation of medicinal products. See CRIMINAL LAW (Drugs—importation)

Medical negligence. See TORT (Personal injuries—medical negligence)

Medical reports. See EVIDENCE (Expert evidence—expert witnesses)

Medical treatment

refusal of treatment

adult patient had capacity to make decision as to medical treatment—although subject to treatment order under Mental Health (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 2010 and previously lacking capacity, evidence before court that patient had to capacity to refuse amputation without which he would most likely die: In re YZ (Royal Ct.), 2023 GLR 150

Medicinal products

definition

for purposes of Import and Export (Control) (Guernsey) Law 1946, “medicinal product” as defined by art. 1(2) of Council Directive 2001/83/EC—words to be construed according to natural meaning, i.e. (a) any substance or combination of substances presented as having properties for treating or preventing disease in human beings, or (b) any substance or combination of substances which may be used in or administered to human beings either with view to restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions by exerting pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action, or to making medical diagnosis—cannot infer that medicinal product should necessarily have therapeutic benefit and function of treating or preventing disease: Law Officers v. Le Billon (C.A.), 2011–12 GLR 128

Prescription drugs. See CRIMINAL LAW (Drugs—importation)

Refusal of medical treatment. See Medical treatment—refusal of treatment