Radio 4 debates on ownership of body parts

Charles Foster appears on the Radio 4 Law in Action programme on 23 and 25 June 2009, taking part in a discussion about the ownership of body parts. The programme focusses in particular on the impact of the Court of Appeal case of Yearworth (in which Outer Temple Chambers' Nicolas Stallworthy appeared). Yearworth, Foster suggests, marks a significant departure from the old and suffocating maxim 'there is no property in a corpse.' It shows that the common law is sufficiently innovative and elastic to cope with the rapidly multiplying dilemmas created by medical advance.