Right to paternity testing of tissue samples should extend beyond medical necessity

Dyer reports that a man has won the right of paternity testing against a dead putative father. 1 We considered a case series of posthumous paternity testing on retained tissue samples. 2 Our cases all occurred in a single hospital and were covered by the Human Tissue Act 2004; the consent issues could be resolved without recourse to the courts.The act is complex, particularly in the way it deals with genetic testing.