Kirsty Moreton

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level approach’ (Keele)
Other Supervision:
- ‘Criminal Law response to adolescent sexual activity and online communications’
- Successful ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarship on ‘Obstetric Interventions: To what extent do consent processes adhere to the law’.

Research activity per year

5 Article
2 Commissioned report
2 Chapter

9 results

2023

Literature Review: Disagreements in the Care of Critically Ill Children: Causes, Impact and Possible Resolution Mechanisms
Moreton, K., 18 May 2023, Nuffield Council on Bioethics. 57 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
The appeal in Bell v Tavistock and beyond: Where are we now with trans children's treatment for gender dysphoria
Moreton, K., 17 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Medical Law Review. fwad025.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2021
A backwards-step for Gillick: trans children’s inability to consent to treatment for gender dysphoria—Quincy Bell & Mrs A v The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and Ors [2020] EWHC 3274 (Admin)
Moreton, K. L., 2 Jul 2021, In: Medical Law Review. 29, 4, p. 699–715 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
An Exploration of Local Views of Living and Dying with Dementia
Moreton, K., 2021
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
2019

Reflecting on ‘Hannah’s Choice’: Using the Ethics of Care to Justify Child Participation in End of Life Decision-Making
Moreton, K. L., 29 Jun 2019, In: Medical Law Review.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2017

Twisted Reasoning: Disentagling Matters of Law, Conjoined Embodiment, Life and Death - Legal Commentary on Re A
Moreton, K., 2017, Ethical Judgments: Re-Writing Medical Law. Smith, S. W. (ed.). Hart Publishing, p. 24-30
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2015

Gillick Reinstated: Judging Mid-Childhood Competence in Healthcare Law - An NHS Trust v ABC & a Local Authority
Moreton, K., 2015, In: Medical Law Review. 23, 2, p. 303-314
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Re MB and St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S: The Dilemma of the 'Court-Ordered' Caesarean
Moreton, K. & Fox, M., 2015, Landmark Cases in Medical Law. Herring, J. & Wall, J. (eds.). Hart Publishing, p. 145-174
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2014

Jonathan Herring - Caring and the Law
Moreton, K., 2014, In: Medical Law Review. 22, 3, p. 452-457
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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