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It seems possible that a new Mental Incapacity Bill would legalise medical experiments on human subjects who cannot give informed consent, as in the Law Commission s original draft. The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine allows this, if the subjects "do not object", which is why Germany is among the countries which have not signed it. It is apparently on the cards that Britain will now do so; responsibility for the decision has now been moved from the Foreign Office to the Lord Chancellor's Department.
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