Informed consent for minors: the Gillick principle and comparisons between the Commonwealth and the civil law

Topic of the dissertation is the Gillick principle enabled by the House of Lords, which establishes that a minor can lawfully give consent to a medical treatment if she is sufficiently capable of understanding the treatment itself. The thesis also concerns the application of the Gillick principle in all the Commonwealth area, such as, for instance, Australia, New Zealand and U.S.A. The text in the end makes a comparison between the systems of common law and civil law