According appropriate weight to children’s wishes and feelings: University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust v B (A Minor) [2019] EWHC 1670 (Fam)
According appropriate weight to children’s wishes and feelings: University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust v B (A Minor) [2019] EWHC 1670 (Fam)
B, 16 years old, was suffering from Diabetic Ketoacidosis, a life-threatening complication of insulin-dependent diabetes. B’s doctors wished to commence medical treatment to reverse the Diabetic Ketoacidosis; however, B refused medical intervention. Due to B’s worsening condition, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust made an urgent without notice application to seek permission to administer intravenous fluids and insulin to B, notwithstanding B’s refusal of medical treatment. To determine whether the treatment was in B’s best interest, MacDonald J conducted a best interests’ assessment. This comment expresses concern with the extent to which B’s wishes and feelings were weighed in this case and submit that the court disregarded B’s wishes and feelings when conducting a best interests’ assessment.
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Limb, Rebecca L.A.
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Limb, Rebecca L.A.
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Limb, Rebecca L.A.
(2021)
According appropriate weight to children’s wishes and feelings: University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust v B (A Minor) [2019] EWHC 1670 (Fam).
Medical Law Review, 29 (3), .
(doi:10.1093/medlaw/fwab003).
Abstract
B, 16 years old, was suffering from Diabetic Ketoacidosis, a life-threatening complication of insulin-dependent diabetes. B’s doctors wished to commence medical treatment to reverse the Diabetic Ketoacidosis; however, B refused medical intervention. Due to B’s worsening condition, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust made an urgent without notice application to seek permission to administer intravenous fluids and insulin to B, notwithstanding B’s refusal of medical treatment. To determine whether the treatment was in B’s best interest, MacDonald J conducted a best interests’ assessment. This comment expresses concern with the extent to which B’s wishes and feelings were weighed in this case and submit that the court disregarded B’s wishes and feelings when conducting a best interests’ assessment.
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