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AB, Re (ADRT: Validity and Applicability) [2025] EWCOP 20 (T3)

27/6/2025

 
Judgment concerning the validity of an Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment (ADRT)

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Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust v T & Anor [2023] EWCOP 20

12/6/2023

 
Judgment giving reasons for refusing an anticipatory declaration involving obstetric care for T.

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NHS Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board & JH [2023] EWCOP 2

24/1/2023

 
Application for a declaration regarding an advance decision and liability for withholding any treatment from JH

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Q, Re [2022] EWCOP 6

2/3/2022

 
Application seeking declarations that Q lacks capacity to litigate, make decisions about her medical treatment and had lacked capacity when making an advance decision to refuse treatment.

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Re PW (Jehovah's Witness: Validity of Advance Decision) [2021] EWCOP 52

28/9/2021

 
Judgment concerning whether an 80-year-old’s advance decision on receiving a blood transfusion was valid.

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Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v MSP [2020] EWCOP 26

4/6/2020

 
Application by the Trust to withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration from the P who had expressed, in an advance decision, that he did not want to live with an irreversible stoma. The application was granted.

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A Clinical Commissioning Group v AF & Ors [2020] EWCOP 16

30/3/2020

 
​​The court had to decide if it was in the P's best interests to continue to receive CANH. The court ruled that CANH should continue.

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NHS Cumbria CCG v Rushton [2018] EWCOP 41

26/3/2019

 
Application regarding the proposed withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) in respect of the 85 year old P. The application was granted.

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Re QQ [2016] EWCOP 22

7/7/2016

 
​Mr Justice Keehan gave a brief judgment and agreed with the treating clinician that QQ, who has a diagnosis of an emotionally unstable personality disorder and schizophrenia, lacked capacity to make decisions on the issue of her treatment in relation to receiving anticoagulation medication and that it was in her best interests to receive such treatment.

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