Practice Note (Persistent Vegetative State: Withdrawal of Treatment)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1994
CourtFamily Division
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7 cases
  • Practice Note (Official Solicitor: Declaratory Proceedings)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
    ...solicitor: sterilization) [1996] 3 FCR 95, [1996] 2 FLR 111 and Practice Note (Official Solicitor: vegetative state) [1996] 3 FCR 606, [1996] 2 FLR 375. It combines the guidance given in those earlier practice notes, and extends it to a wider range of medical and welfare disputes leading to......
  • NHS Trust A v M. NHS Trust B v H
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • Invalid date
    ...Solicitor represented both patients in accordance with the Practice Note (official solicitor: vegetative state) [1996] 3 FCR 606, [1996] 4 All ER 766. The Official Solicitor did not oppose the applications. Mr Wood, representing an unincorporated organisation called ALERT, sought to interve......
  • Law Hospital NHS Trust v Lord Advocate and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session (Inner House - Full Bench)
    • 22 March 1996
    ...of the form of relief which has been recommended for England and Wales in his Practice Note of March 1994 by the Official Solicitor [1994] 2 All ER 413. Nevertheless important questions were raised by the Lord Advocate in his submission to the Lord Ordinary as to whether this was a competen......
  • NHS Trust A v M. NHS Trust B v H
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 25 October 2000
    ...of each patient and by the hospital staff. The Official Solicitor represented both patients in accordance with the Practice Note [1996] 2 FLR 375; 4 All E R 766. The Official Solicitor did not oppose the applications. Mr Wood, representing an unincorporated organisation called ALERT, sought......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Hidden Law‐Making in the Province of Medical Jurisprudence
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 77-3, May 2014
    • 1 May 2014
    ...Minors and mental health patients) [1993] 3 All ER 222 and Practice Note (persistentvegetative state: Withdrawal of treatment) [1994] 2 All ER 413, then Practice Note: Official Solicitor:Sterilisation [1996] 2 FLR 111, Practice Note (Vegetative State) [1996] 2 FLR 375, and subsequentlyPracti......

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