New guidelines from the Royal College of Physicians and endorsed or supported by a further 15 health bodies offer updated… Read more
Tag: medical treatment
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
Medical treatment: delay, neglect and judicial despair
Following the recent – deeply troubling – case involving Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, Hayden J has had to… 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
Refusing food, (in)capacity and coming to court
In QJ v A Local Authority Hayden J was considering the situation of an 87 year old man with vascular… 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
Contingencies, capacity and Caesarean sections
In GSTT & SLAM v R [2020] EWCOP 4, Hayden J has come back to the extremely thorny question of what… Read more
Serious Medical Treatment – Practice Guidance
The Vice-President of the Court of Protection, Hayden J has published guidance on serious medical treatment applications in the Court… Read more
The MHA, force-feeding and best interests
In JK v A Local Health Board [2019] EWHC 67 (Fam), Lieven J had to grapple with the intersection between the… Read more
Medical treatment and 16/17 year olds – joining the dots
Prompted by work done for the case of Re D, in which the Supreme Court gave judgment ([2019] UKSC 42)… Read more