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According appropriate weight to children’s wishes and feelings : University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust v B (A Minor) [2019] EWHC 1670 (Fam)
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Limb, Rebecca (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). pp. 524-536. doi:10.1093/medlaw/fwab003 ISSN 0967-0742.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/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...
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | K Law [LC] > KD England and Wales | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Medical Law Review | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0967-0742 | ||||||||
Official Date: | July 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 29 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 524-536 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/medlaw/fwab003 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Medical Law Review following peer review. The version of record Rebecca L A Limb, 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, 2021;, fwab003, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwab003 | ||||||||
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