‘welfare of a thirteen-year-old boy called P. Yesterday, very sadly, P was involved in a very serious road traffic accident in which he sustained multiple injuries which are life threatening, those injuries are set out in the report of one of his treating doctors that is before the court.
I am required to decide on an urgent basis whether it is in P’s best interest, should his condition deteriorate suddenly, to be treated by way of blood or products in circumstances where consent for such treatment cannot be forthcoming either from P, by reason of him being in an induced coma, or from his mother and father, who are committed and conscientious Jehovah’s Witnesses. The parents are aware that the application is being made and have attended this hearing by telephone from the hospital.’
Mr Justice MacDonald
[2019] EWHC 2989 (Fam)
Bailii
England and Wales
Health
Updated: 16 November 2021; Ref: scu.648642
