In light both of the increased focus on advance care planning and the recent case reinforcing the importance of compliance with the procedural requirements within … Read More ›
Category: Advance Planning
In Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v MSP [2020] EWCOP 26, Hayden J considered an application, initially made to him as the Out of Hours … Read More ›
In JK v A Local Health Board [2019] EWHC 67 (Fam), Lieven J had to grapple with the intersection between the MCA, the MHA and the … Read More ›
In NHS Cumbria CCG v Rushton [2018] EWCOP 41, Hayden J has both given clear endorsement to the BMA/RCP guidance on decisions about clinically assisted … Read More ›
In a true door-stop of a judgment (538 pages) the Indian Supreme Court confirmed on 9 March the lawfulness of advance decisions to refuse treatment, … Read More ›
The British Medical Association, the Resuscitation Council (UK) and the Royal College of Nursing have today (7 October) published new Joint Guidance on ‘Decisions relating … Read More ›
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust v RC [2014] EWHC 1317 (COP) Summary This is the sequel to the case of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust v J [2014] … Read More ›
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Foundation Trust v LM [2014] EWHC 454 (COP) (Peter Jackson J) Summary This case concerns the lawfulness of withholding blood transfusions from a gravely … Read More ›