Re: F (a child)
Wednesday 23rd June 2021
Application for permission to appeal with appeal to follow if granted against the order of MacDonald J dated the 28 May 2021.
The Applicants are “A’s” parents. They were the Second and Third Respondents to an application made by a NHS Foundation Trust under section 8 of the Children Act 1989 to withdraw life sustaining treatment to A, a child currently in a paediatric intensive care unit. The judge acceded to that application and held that it was in A’s best interests that such treatment should be withdrawn/ discontinued. It is the inevitable effect of the hospital acting on that declaration and withdrawing treatment that A will die.
Lower Court Judgment:
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2021/1426.html
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