‘application by an NHS Foundation Trust for a declaration that AB by reason of her minority lacks capacity to consent to or refuse cataract surgery and associated care and treatment, and an order that is in AB’s best interests for her to undergo cataract surgery in both eyes, and that to the extent that admitting AB to the hospital for the surgery and consequential care is against her wishes and constitutes a deprivation of her liberty, such deprivation is lawful.’
Mrs Justice Lieven DBE
[2020] EWHC 3221 (Fam)
Bailii
England and Wales
Health
Updated: 16 November 2021; Ref: scu.656329
