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Re: Mrs. N – Court of Protection – withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration from a minimally conscious patient

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This ground breaking case is the first in which the Court has authorised the withdrawal of  artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) from an incapable patient who, although in a state of very reduced consciousness, is clinically stable and still exhibiting some awareness. The decision puts the autonomy of the patient firmly at the heart of […]

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Charles Foster acts for the acquitted doctor in first FGM prosecution

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Charles Foster represented Dr. Dhanuson Dharmasena in the first ever prosecution under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. Dr. Dharmasena was a junior doctor who attended a Somali woman in labour. The woman had been infibulated as a child, and had subsequently been deinfibulated. The doctor made an incision through scar tissue in order to catheterise […]

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“Unconscionable” actions and “neglect” led to the death of a patient

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Bridget Dolan represented the parents of Sally Mays at the inquest into her death in October 2015. The Senior Coroner for Hull found that the decision by senior psychiatric nursing staff to refuse Sally a hospital bed when she was in obvious need of admission, was an “unconscionable and quixotic decision” following a “lamentable”, “perfunctory and […]

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