Epilepsy and law.

Epilepsy, motor vehicle licensure and the law: the physician's rights aand responsibilities in Illinois.

Continuing professional development: Medico-legal aspects of epilepsy

Generally protection against possible litigation and good clinical practice go hand in hand. Situations in which the law has special relevance for people with epilepsy, those who work with them, and their clinicians are reviewed with special reference to the topics of driving, employment, duties of social carers, the clinician's everyday role, the responsibilities of researchers and epilepsy an...

Post-traumatic epilepsy and the law.

Epilepsy and the Defence of Insanity – Time for Change

Epilepsy holds an almost unique place in English criminal law. It has resulted in two appeals to the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, the highest appeal court in the land. This in turn has led to a pair of legal decisions which in many ways have shaped the development of the defence of insanity and its relationship to automatism. This report will provide a unique insight into how the c...

Awake seizures after pure sleep-related epilepsy: a systematic review and implications for driving law.

Who with sleep seizures is safe to drive? Driving law is controversial; ineligibility varies between individual US states and EU countries. Current UK driving law is strongly influenced by a single-centre study from 1974 where most participants were not taking antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). However, pure sleep-related epilepsy is often fully controlled on medication, and its withdrawal can provoke...