The judge in the case, Dame Elizabeth Butler Sloss, will have to decide whether it is ethically right for patients who cannot freely give consent themselves to be subjected to such an "unknown quantity" - even if there is a chance it may help them.

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To this day banks cannot expand freely, as regulatory approval is necessary to open new branches.

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Exports are banned, the naval blockade is still in place, and most Gazans cannot yet freely come and go.

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As a woman, she cannot drive or walk around freely and learned quickly that she did not know the streets and different districts of Saudi Arabia particularly well.

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He had argued that the market was being distorted because school holidays are set through public policy, and parents cannot pick and choose holiday dates as freely as other groups.

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He was not everybody's choice for the job after that but having been given it on a full-time basis in mid-May and then allowed to spend freely enough to sign 12 players, he cannot have expected he would have been out of a job before the Premier League boys had even got underway.

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Carriers can operate freely from international waters, while land-based aircraft cannot easily fly in a war zone unless a nearby country offers a base.

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But Dino Kos, a former chief of markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who now works for Portales Partners, a research firm, notes that the yuan does not meet one of the most basic requirements of a reserve currency: other countries cannot use it to intervene in foreign-exchange markets because it is not freely convertible.

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Similarly he certainly cannot take all of the blame for the consequences of what happened when the money started to flow too freely into the wrong people's hands.

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