Langford M J
Nurse Educ Today. 1990 Feb;10(1):24-30. doi: 10.1016/0260-6917(90)90134-c.
The first part of this paper describes the nature of a Moot Court (or Mock Trial) and how it has been used in recent years as a teaching method for students in medicine and nursing at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. A whole day is spent in the enactment of an imaginary court case in which issues in bioethics are raised. Civil and criminal cases are used in alternate years. A considerable degree of realism is maintained except for the occasions when the presiding judge needs to make comments to the students in order to explain what is going on. The realism is helped by the fact that the roles of judge and of legal counsel are played by members of the judiciary and lawyers from the Newfoundland bar. In the second part of the paper there is a discussion of the principal issue that arose in the 1988 Moot Court, namely informed consent. In the third part the secondary legal and moral issues that arose are described and in the fourth part there is a discussion of the interface between law and morality that is illustrated by the issues that came up in the Moot Court.
本文第一部分描述了模拟法庭（或模拟审判）的性质，以及近年来它是如何作为纽芬兰纪念大学医学和护理专业学生的一种教学方法被使用的。一整天都用于模拟一个虚构的法庭案件，其中会提出生物伦理问题。民事和刑事案件交替使用。除了主审法官需要向学生作出解释以说明进展情况的场合外，整个过程保持了相当程度的真实性。由于法官和法律顾问的角色由司法机构成员和纽芬兰律师协会的律师扮演，这有助于增强真实性。在本文的第二部分，讨论了1988年模拟法庭中出现的主要问题，即知情同意。在第三部分中，描述了出现的次要法律和道德问题，而在第四部分中，讨论了由模拟法庭中出现的问题所说明的法律与道德之间的界面。
