Re C (Adult: Refusal of Treatment)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1994
Date1994
Year1994
CourtFamily Division
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91 cases
  • B v Croydon Health Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • Invalid date
  • Fitzpatrick v F.K. and another
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 25 April 2008
    ...(No 2) [1996] 2 IR 79, In re T (Adult: refusal of medical treatment) [1993] Fam 95, In Re C (Adult: refusal of medical treatment) [1994] 1 WLR 290, In re MB (Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FLR 426, HE v A Hospital NHS Trust [2003] EWHC 1017 (Fam), [2003] 2 FLR 408 and Malette v Shulman (1990)......
  • Tameside and Glossop Acute Services Trust v CH
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • Invalid date
    ...1; Airedale NHS Trust v Bland[1994] 1 FCR 485; Re T (Adult: Refusal of Treatment)[1992] 2 FCR 861; and Re C (Adult: Refusal of Treatment)[1994] 2 FCR 151 could be summarized as: (i) in general it was a criminal and tortious assault to perform physically invasive medical treatment without co......
  • Re M B (Caesarian section)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 March 1997
    ......-Sloss, Lord Justice Saville and Lord Justice Ward Court of Appeal Medical treatment - phobia against needles resulting in incompetence - non-consensual treatment Phobia caused ... of the evidence was necessary because fear of an operation might be a rational reason for refusal to undergo it. Fear might also, however, paralyse the will and thus destroy the capacity to make a ... situation in which it was lawful for doctors to intervene was if it was believed that the adult patient lacked the capacity to decide. On the present state of the English law the submission ......
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  • Advance Directives
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 11 September 2003
    ...1 Re T (Adult: Refusal of Treatment) [1992] WLR 782 2 Airedale NHS Trust v Bland [1993] AC 78 3 Re C (Adult Refusal of Treatment) [1994] 1 WLR 290 4 "Making Decisions" The Government's proposals for making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults. © RadcliffesLeBrasseur The cont......
22 books & journal articles
  • Medical Treatment Authorised under Part IV of the Mental Health Act 1983
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill A Practitioner's Guide to Mental Health Law Part Three. Detention and treatment under the Mental Health Act 1983
    • 28 August 2014
    ...Health Authority [1995] 1 All ER 683, for example, Lord Hoffmann distinguished the facts with which he was dealing from those in Re C [1994] 1 WLR 290, the famous case of a patient with schizophrenia who refused treatment for a gangrenous leg. In Re C , the gangrene was entirely unconnected......
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill A Practitioner's Guide to Mental Health Law Preliminary Sections
    • 28 August 2014
    ...2 All ER 595 227 Blouet v Bath and Wansdyke Magistrates’ Court [2009] EWHC 759 (Admin) 101 Boughton v Knight (1873) LR 3 PD 64 227 C, Re [1994] 1 WLR 290 86 C v Blackburn & Darwen Borough Council [2011] EWHC 3321 (COP) 219 Clunis v Camden & Islington Health Authority [1998] 3 All ER 180 188......
  • Hidden Law‐Making in the Province of Medical Jurisprudence
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 77-3, May 2014
    • 1 May 2014
    ...the case as an example of ‘double effect’.99 By the second, only four years later,91 Re C (Adult: refusal of medical treatment) [1994] 1 All ER 819.92 Andrew Grubb saw the test as a development of those set out in Gillick, and the Mental HealthAct 1983; (1994) 2 Med L Rev 92.93 H. Palmer, ‘......
  • Religious Beliefs and Teenage Refusal of Medical Treatment
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 62-4, July 1999
    • 1 July 1999
    ...2 FCR 662.42 Competence in Re JT was assessed according to the three stage test of Thorpe J in Re C (An Adult:Refusal of Treatment) [1994] 1 All ER 819 and the patient was found able to understand, retain, believeand weigh the relevant medical information.43 [1998] 2 FCR 662, 665.July 1999]......
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