Miss Sarah Elliston

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Senior Lecturer (Law)
Adviser of Studies (Social Sciences College Academic and Student Administration)

telephone: 01413302696
email: Sarah.Elliston@glasgow.ac.uk

After completing her law degrees, Sarah Elliston practised as a barrister in London before joining the School of Law in 1994. Her teaching is almost exclusively in Medical Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

As well as her work within the University, she has contributed to the work of a number of public and professional organisations. This has included membership of Local Research Ethics Committees; membership of a Department of Health Steering Committee on Xenotransplantation; membership of a working party drafting guidelines for removal of tissue from children with cancer for their potential future fertility treatment; membership of the Scottish Review Group on Retention of Organs at Postmortem and convening the Information Leaflets and Authorisation Forms Subcommittee of that group, and writing guidance on legal aspects of treating children in Scotland for the British Medical Association. She is the Scottish Case Editor for the Butterworths Medico Legal Reports and write the medical law section for the Butterworths Scottish Older Client Law Service.

Research Interests

Medical law, particularly the medical treatment of children and legal aspects of human reproduction.

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Number of items: 20.

2012

Elliston, S. (2012) The welfare of the child principle and the use of PGD: selecting for disability. In: Elliston, S. and McLean, S. (eds.) Regulating Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415686440 (In Press)

McLean, S., and Elliston, S. (2012) Conclusion. In: McLean, S. and Elliston, S. (eds.) Regulating Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415686440 (In Press)

2009

Elliston, S (2009) Bionews November 2009.

Elliston, Sarah (2009) Update on the HFEA 2008 amendments to the HFEA 1990. BioNews, 530 . (doi:http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_49873.asp)

2005

Elliston, S (2005) Treating Children. In: Thomas, D., Thompson, J. and Ridler , B. (eds.) A Manual for Blood Conservation. TFM Publishing Ltd, pp. 213-224. ISBN 1 903378 24 9

Elliston, S. (2005) Treating the preterm infant - the legal context. In: Norman, J.E. and Greer, A. (eds.) Preterm Labour : Managing Risk in Clinical Practice. Cambridge University Press, pp. 364-396. ISBN 9780521821865

McLean, S, and Elliston, Sarah (2005) The Management of Pregnancy and Labour. In: Norman, J. and Greer, I. (eds.) Preterm Labour: Managing Risk in Clinical Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 329-363. ISBN 052182186X

2004

Elliston, S, and McLean, S (2004) Death, Decision Making and the Law. Juridical Review (3). pp. 265-293. ISSN 0022-6785

McLean, Sheila, and Elliston, Sarah (2004) Managing Pregnancy and Labour. In: Norman, J, and Greer, I. (eds.) Preterm Labour: Managing Risk in Clinical Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 329-363. ISBN 978-0521821865

2003

Elliston, S (2003) The Legal Aspects [of protecting future reproductive choices of children undergoing cancer treatment]. Human Fertility, 6 (2). A26-A36. ISSN 1464-7273

Elliston, S (2003) A Strategy for Fertility Services for Survivors of Childhood Cancer. Human Fertility, 6 (2). A1-A39. ISSN 1742-8149 (doi:10.1080/1464770312331369143)

2002

Elliston, S, De Wert, G, and Berghmans, R (2002) Ethical Guidance on Human Embryonic and Fetal Tissue Transplantation: A European Overview. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 5 (1). pp. 79-90. ISSN 1386-7423

2001

Elliston, S (2001) Stillbirths and Abortion: Research on Foetal Tissue. In: The Scottish Independent Review Group on Removal and Retention of Organs at Post-Mortem. Scottish Executive Health Department, Edinburgh. ISBN 0755903005

Elliston, S. (2001) The Law: Scotland. In: Consent, Rights and Choices in Health Care for Children and Young People. BMJ Books, pp. 54-78. ISBN 0727912283