Re L (Medical Treatment: Benefit)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year2005
Date2005
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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5 cases
  • NHS Trust v Ms D and Ors
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 10 November 2005
    ... ... her condition had stabilised but deteriorated to the extent that all her doctors and other medical experts said that she was in a vegetative state and probably had no awareness of any kind. That ... The First Defendant lacks capacity to make decisions regarding her future medical treatment ... 2 It is in Ms D's best interests not to receive: (a) ... The first entry should be of any factor or factors of actual benefit. In the present case the instance would be the acquisition of foolproof contraception. Then on the ... ...
  • Re W (A Child) (Medical Treatment: Best Interests)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 October 2005
    ...and reassurance that his approach on 7 October 2004 had, in the interim, been approved by Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss P in Re L (Medical Treatment: Benefit) [2004] EWHC 2713 (Fam), [2005] 1 FLR 491 at 494 (paragraph 12) (hereinafter referred to as Re 53 The judge began his analysis with a......
  • Re Wyatt (A Child) (medical treatment: continuation of order)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
    ...Re [1991] FCR 370, [1990] 3 All ER 930, [1991] Fam 33, [1991] 2 WLR 140, CA. L (medical treatment: benefit), Re[2004] EWHC 2713 (Fam), [2005] 1 FLR 491. NHS Trust v D[2000] 2 FCR 577, [2000] 2 FLR R (on the application of Burke) v General Medical Council [2004] EWHC 1879 (Admin), [2004] 3 F......
  • Re K (A Child) (Withdrawal of Treatment)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 9 May 2006
    ...the judge conclude that the application is likely to advance the best interests [of the person lacking capacity]". 46 In Re L (A Minor) [2005] 1 FLR 491 at paras [12] – [13], Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss summed up the balancing process in words of particularly helpful application in this cas......
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