The patient, a Jehovah’s Witness, suffered a tumour induced fatal condition. If treated she might live a further 5 or more years. She had signed an advance decision refusing treatment by blood transfusion, a necessary part of her treatment. In conversations about her treatment when being assessed as to capacity, she seemed to have given conflicting responses.
Mr Justice Poole
[2021] EWCOP 52
Bailii, Judiciary
Mental Capacity Act 2005
England and Wales
Updated: 26 September 2021; Ref: scu.668184 br>