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Parental rights, best interests and significant harms: who should have the final say over a child's medical care?
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Who should have the ultimate say over a child’s medical treatment? A series of high-profile withdrawal of care cases have highlighted the full extent of the courts’ authority to make deci-sions on behalf of children in the medical context. In both the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans litigation, the courts have made clear that they have the power to make medical decisions for children at the point that child’s welfare is engaged. All courts involved in both cases affirmed the orthodox position th...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1017/S0008197319000382
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Cambridge Law Journal More from this journal
- Volume:
- 78
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 287-323
- Publication date:
- 2019-04-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-04-04
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1469-2139
- ISSN:
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0008-1973
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2019-04-04
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- Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors
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- 2019
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- © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2019. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197319000382
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