Chapter 4: Deciding for Others - Children

This is part of the online companion site to the book Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law - The Mental Capacity Act in Action, edited by Christopher Johnston, written by members of 3 Serjeants' Inn and published by Bloomsbury Professional in 2010.

The site provides (1) updating material as it becomes available and (2) hyperlinks to website addresses given in the hard copy. The material is organised according to the book's chapter headings. Click on the chapter headings on the left-hand side to access the material for other chapters.

Updating material   

LA v SB, AB and MB (A child by his guardian David Duncan) [2010] EWHC 1744 (Fam). This case considered the proper limitations of the court’s role when there was no proper dispute as to a child undergoing surgery.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2010/1744.html

Hyperlinks
Paragraph 4.15 - Footnote 14:
In the matter of RB (AChild) [2009 ]EWHCB26 (Fam):  http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2009/3269.html.