Following on from my rantings (sorry, hopefully clear discussion) about capacity, I’ve now turned to best interests. The slides are… Read more
Tag: Best interests
Treatment escalation and best interests
In University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust v ED [2020] EWCOP 18, Moor J had to consider whether treatment escalation would… Read more
Care homes and contact restrictions arising out of COVID-19: the Court of Protection pronounces
In BP v Surrey County Council & Anor [2020] EWCOP 17, Hayden J had to grapple with the impact of… Read more
New guidelines on Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness
New guidelines from the Royal College of Physicians and endorsed or supported by a further 15 health bodies offer updated… Read more
Medical treatment, due haste, and capacity complexities
Possibly as a result of lessons learned in relation to the case of Mrs H, the same NHS Trust has… Read more
Not only inimical… but potentially fatal, an update
Further to the judgment in Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v H [2020] EWCOP 5, discussed here, it… Read more
Not only inimical… but potentially fatal: medical treatment cases and delay
In Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v H [2020] EWCOP 5, the delay in bringing and then resolving… Read more
Will, preferences and estrangement
In A Local Authority v PS & HS [2019] EWCOP 60, the court had to decide upon an 80 year-old… Read more
Birth arrangements, interventions and the art (not science) of capacity
In NHS Trust v P [2019] EWCOP 23, Williams J was asked to endorse the covert carrying out (under general… Read more
Medical treatment, best interests, and the desire to live
If proof were needed that Bland has politely been consigned to the history books, it can be found in the… Read more