Please tell me this wasn't an actual interview question!
But just for randomness' sake - No the law doesn't condone that. First off it would be reasonably difficult for you to have a fully cloned brother anyway.... well... hmmmm it sort of would. But lets just say that somehow you managed have a secretly cloned brother - assuming you did it pre 2001 and were reasonably well up on your Britsh law, there did used to be a legal loophole ( which they fixed in 2001) - so that part i suppose has the possiblilities of being 'legal'.
The actual brain surgery... hmmmm.... I asume the point you are trying to make is that the 'cloned brother' is actually a clone of the person who would carry out the surgery and so it would be like a person doing surgery on themelves, you can't really arrest someone for that. But the law doesn't actually work like that, its easier to consider it like twins (indentical - so they have the same DNA) - If the brother was medically unqualified and the surgery wasn't an emergency and so absolutely unnecessary then it would be illegal, even assuming that nothing went wrong. If something did go wrong and the clone died, it would be considered manslaughter. Well actually it probably be worse than that - from my limited memories of Law class in school - Its manslaughter if there is no actual initial intent to kill AND it doesn't occur under the commision of another crime. But it would be commited under another crime assuming the brother wasn't medically qualified.....
Right well thats my brain suficiently stretched for one day
