Memories of Margot

This editorial is dedicated to Professor Margaret ‘Margot’ Brazier who died on 4 March 2025. Margot was an incredibly important figure in the life of members of the current Editorial team, and in the lives of many of those previously involved with the journal. To make the space to reflect on how Margot has shaped our lives and experiences, this will not be a traditional editorial. We have not introduced and discussed the papers included within this edition as we usually would, yet we are, as always, very grateful to the authors for their wonderful contributions. Margot was a former Editor-in-Chief of Medical Law Review, and so we have joined the editors of that journal to collectively pay our respects to Margot and reflect upon and recognise her extraordinary role in the field as a whole, as well as to us personally. The same editorial tributes will be published in both journals, as a small way to recognise one of the central tenets of Margot’s professional philosophy – collaboration. We hope that our tributes highlight the esteem within which Margot was held, how much she means to us, and the enormous loss we all feel. Our thoughts are with Rodney, her husband, and Vicky, her daughter.