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Special symposium: religion, the law, and medical ethics
The role of the church in developing the law: response to commentators
  1. L Skene1,
  2. M Parker2
  1. 1Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
  2. 2School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor L Skene, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia;
 l.skene{at}law.unimelb.edu.au

Abstract

Three of the four commentators endorse our concerns about intervention by the Roman Catholic church as an amicus curiae in civil litigation, with few reservations. One commentary rejects our arguments in toto. We deal first with the three commentaries that support our arguments; secondly, with the reservations and qualifications in those commentaries, and thirdly, with the commentary that totally rejects our arguments.

  • Amicus curiae
  • civil litigation
  • doctrine
  • legal argument
  • pluralism
  • religion

https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.28.4.229

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