Secretary of State for the Home Department v Robb
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 04 October 1994 |
| Date | 04 October 1994 |
| Court | Family Division |
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26 cases
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Governor of X Prison v McD (P)
...Thorpe J. considered the question of the rights of a prisoner refusing food in Secretary of Stale for the Home Department v. Robb [1995] Fam.127. The adult prisoner in that case had begun to refuse all nutrition, and medical experts agreed that he was of sound mind and fully understood the ......
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A.B. v C.D.
...to refuse nutrition and hydration continued to exist for a detained prisoner ( Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Robb [1995] Fam. 127 (Thorpe J.)). That court relied heavily on a decision of the Supreme Court of California in Thor v. Superior Court, 855 P.2d 375 (1993) which rec......
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R (B) v SS, Dr AC and the Secretary of State for Health
...person'srefusalto consent must be respected, however drastic the consequences for the individual concerned. In Secretary of State v Robb [1995] Fam 127, Thorpe J accepted as correct the statement of principle that:- "Secondly, the principle of self-determination requires that respect must b......
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Petition Of W.m. (a.p.) For Judicial Review
...provided always he is of sound mind, can be allowed to starve himself to death: see Secretary of State for the Home Department v Robb [1995] Fam. 127." That contention was not in the event one which the Court of Appeal in that case required to address but in my view it requires little imagi......
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4 books & journal articles
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My Body and Other Stories: Anorexia Nervosa and the Legal Politics of Embodiment
...jurisdiction) [1992] 2 FCR 788.Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust v C [1997] 1 FCR 276.Secretary of State for the Home Department v Robb, [1995] 1 All ER 677.St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust v S, R v Collins and Others, ex parte S [1998] 3 WLR 936. REFERENCES Barber, Nigel (1998) ‘The Slender Id......
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Compassionate Killings: The Case for a Partial Defence
...to end it.84 (1884) 14 QBD 273.85 Leigh vGladstone (1909) 26 TLR 139 (although now see Secretary of State for the Home DepartmentvRobb [1995] 1 All ER 677 on the legality of force feeding).On medical necessity see also Bourne[1939] 1 KB 687 and Lord Edmund Davies in Southwark LBC vWilliams ......
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Testing Cruzan: prisoners and the constitutional question of self-starvation.
...(1983). (26.) See Leonard Downie Jr., Ulster." A Political Solution?, WASH. POST, Sept. 7, 1981, at A1. (27.) Sec'y of State v. Robb, [1995] Fam. 127; see also Richard Ford & Valerie Elliot, Fanatic Who Revelled in His Notoriety, TIMES (London), Nov. 6, 2001; Prisoners Win Right To Star......
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Capacity and Patient Autonomy in Refusal of Treatment Cases: Paving the Way For A New Test?
...16 Medical Law Review 1, 6. 336See R v Collins, ex P Brady (2000) 58 BMLR 173. 337See Secretary of State for the Home Department v Robb [1995] 2 WLR 722. 338Maclean (n 335) 6. 45 S.S.L.R Capacity and Autonomy in Refusal of Treatment Cases Vol.7 The Capacity of Anorexic Patients Tan et al, i......