In 2015, in Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v C and V [2015] EWCOP 80, MacDonald J provided both the then-authoritative summary of the principles … Read More ›
Category: Birth arrangements
What (if any) threshold needs to be satisfied before the Court of Protection can exercise its (relatively) newly discovered ‘contingency’ jurisdiction? This important question was … Read More ›
A NHS Foundation Trust v An Expectant Mother [2021] EWCOP 33 has attracted considerable discussion. The case concerned an expectant woman aged 21 with what … Read More ›
In two decisions which came out simultaneously, the Court of Protection had to consider how to approach obstetric decisions, in both a planned (albeit relatively … Read More ›
In GSTT & SLAM v R [2020] EWCOP 4, Hayden J has come back to the extremely thorny question of what the court is meant to … Read More ›
The Court of Appeal has now given its reasons ([2019] EWCA Civ 1215) for its decision in Re AB to overturn the decision of Lieven … Read More ›
In United Lincolnshire Hospital NHS Trust v CD [2019] EWCOP 24, Francis J has grappled with a subject that has been perennially difficult for practitioners: … Read More ›
In NHS Trust v P [2019] EWCOP 23, Williams J was asked to endorse the covert carrying out (under general anaesthetic) of a Caesarean section … Read More ›