Vice President hears better evidence from medics and P is better represented in remote hearings8/3/2021
Comments came in webinar looking at the role of court observers which you can now watch for free on the Bath Publishing website.
Mr Justice Hayden, Vice President of the Court of Protection, has issued practice guidance which sets out the procedure to be followed "where a decision relating to medical treatment arises and where thought requires to be given to bringing an application".
Application for permission to remove transplantable material for the purpose of transplantation. The application was refused.
Reasons for an order facilitating the delivery of a baby by Caesarean section performed on a 24-year-old woman with a diagnosis of autism and learning disability.
Read the full text of the judgment on Bailii The Patient, aged 46, had suffered from extremely severe and chronic anorexia nervosa since the age of 15. The court had to decide on the extent of her treatment in the knowledge that if she was not detained and force-fed then she was in danger of dying. The decision was made to discharge the Patient from detention under the Mental Health Act to her parents home.
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