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Introduction
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This collection was inspired by the decision of the Court of Appeal in Great Ormond Street Hospital v Gard [2017] (the ‘Charlie Gard case’). In Gard, and in the cases that followed, both the Court of Appeal (and later the Supreme Court in rejecting permission to appeal) affirmed the orthodox position that the threshold for judicial intervention in disputes about medical care of children is the welfare of the child, often referred to as the ‘best-interests’ approach. ‘Best interests’ is genera...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher:
- Hart Publishing
- Host title:
- Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms: Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children Post-Great Ormond Street Hospital v Gard
- Pages:
- 1-6
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2019-11-29
- ISBN:
- 9781509924899
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2019-07-08
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- 2019
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Hart Publishing at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/parental-rights-best-interests-and-significant-harms-9781509924905/
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