NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Scientific Advisory Board - What is its legal position?

As was pointed out some few days past, the Scientific Advisory Board is, as its name indicates, purely advisory. So, what is its position if the company running the trial declines to accept its advice.

If the SAB advises that the trial is "futile" and its advice is rejected, does the SAB have any statutory or legal duty to inform anybody or any entity that its advice has been rejected or is it able simply to broadcast its advice and the company's rejection of it to the world and its dog?

Similarly if the same thing happens when it advises that the time has come to unblind the trial, how is the SAB meant to react or how can it act within the law if the company rejects its advice and elects to continue indefinitely? Does the SAB just have to sit on its hands and keep its collective mouth shut until either its members die of old age or the company running the trial makes its own decision to unblind the trial?

Enlightenment would be useful to me.