It is difficult to do better in introducing the decision in London NHS Trust v CD & Ors (Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Treatment) [2021] EWCOP … Read More ›
Category: Medical treatment
In AB v CD & Ors [2021] EWHC 741 (Fam), Lieven J has considered further the fall-out from the Bell judgment concerning the administration of … Read More ›
In Re NZ [2021] EWCOP 16, Hayden J had to address, in even more acute form, the dilemma that he had addressed in Sandwell And … Read More ›
In Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust v TW & Anor [2021] EWCOP 13, Hayden J considered a version of a dilemma that presents … Read More ›
In a further judgment concerning vaccination for COVID-19, Hayden J has amplified the approach that he set out in E (Vaccine) [2020] EWCOP 14. In SD … Read More ›
In An NHS Trust v XB & Ors [2020] EWCOP 71, Theis J has further emphasised the thin legal ice for professionals seeking to administer … Read More ›
In Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust v TM [2021] EWCOP 8, Hayden J considered an urgent application made by the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust … Read More ›
When should refusal of treatment by someone under 18 be determinative? For many years, it had been thought that the Court of Appeal had resolved … Read More ›
In Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership v WA & Anor [2020] EWCOP 37, Hayden J had to consider the capacity of a young Palestinian … Read More ›
In A NHS Foundation Trust v MC [2020] EWCOP 33, Cohen J has confirmed that it can be in the best interests of a person … Read More ›