Professor Craig PURSHOUSE
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
LLB (Hons) (Sheff), MA (Manc), PhD (Manc).
Craig is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in medical law and torts and he has published on a diverse range of medical law topics including consent, reproductive negligence, conversion therapy, the medical treatment of children, the protection of autonomy and surrogacy.
Craig was previously a member of the editorial board of the Medical Law Review and remains on the board of the journal Medical Law International, having been joint editor-in-chief of the latter journal until recently. His research has been cited by the UK Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal of Singapore, the High Court of England and Wales and the Law Commissions of Scotland and England and Wales.
Purshouse, C., and S. Fovargue, eds. Leading Works in Health Care Law and Ethics. Routledge, 2024. https://www.routledge.com/Leading-Works-in-Health-Law-and-Ethics/Fovargue-Purshouse/p/book/9780367704858
Purshouse, C., and Ilias Trispiotis. “Is ‘Conversion Therapy’ Tortious?” Legal Studies 42, no. 1 (2022): 23–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2021.28.
Cave, E, and C. Purshouse. “Think of the Children: Liability for Non-Disclosure of Information Post-Montgomery.” Medical Law Review 28, no. 2 (2020): 270-292. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwz023
Purshouse, C., R. Heywood, J. Miola, E. Cave, and S. Devaney. “Head to Head: Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims? ” BMJ 370:m2487 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2487.
Alghrani, A. and C. Purshouse. “Damages for Reproductive Negligence: Commercial Surrogacy on the NHS?” Law Quarterly Review 135 (2019): 405.
Purshouse, C. and K. Bracegirdle. “The Problem of Unenforceable Surrogacy Contracts: Can Unjust Enrichment Provide a Solution?” Medical Law Review 26, no.4 (2018): 557-584. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwy001.
Purshouse, C. “Autonomy, Affinity and the Assessment of Damages: ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd [2017] SGCA 20 and Shaw v Kovak [2017] EWCA Civ 1028.” Medical Law Review 26, no. 4 (2018): 675-692. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwx056
Purshouse, C. “The Impatient Patient and the Unreceptive Receptionist: Darnley v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2018] UKSC 50″ Medical Law Review 27, no. 2 (2019): 318-329. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwy042.
Purshouse, C. “Liability for Lost Autonomy in Negligence: Undermining the Coherence of Tort Law?” Torts Law Journal 22, no.3 (2015): 226-249.
Purshouse, C. “How Should Autonomy be Defined in Medical Negligence Cases?” Clinical Ethics 10, no. 4 (2015): 107-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477750915604104.