Clause 5 - Prohibition of activities without consent etc.
Human Tissue Bill
4:00 pm
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury, Conservative)
I think the Under-Secretary has answered my principal concern, but just for clarification I would like to exemplify my concerns. A clinician on a ward has a patient, on whom he wants a pathologist to undertake an examination. The clinician says to the pathologist, ''Consent has been gained.'' The pathologist takes that in good faith, and his defence would be that he reasonably believed that consent had been gained. Where would the blame lie if that consent had not been obtained, and who would be in the frame?