Prompted by a recent decision in the Hong Kong Court of First Instance, the author considers the legal position of a pregnant woman on a hunger strike. Medical treatment cases demonstrate that the courts favour the principle of freedom to refuse treatment, even where the patient is pregnant,...

China is the largest national source of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution causing climate change. However, despite some rhetorical progress at the 2011 Durban climate conference, it has consistently rejected calls to take on binding targets to reduce its GHG emissions. The Chinese Government has...