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P lacked capacity to decide medical treatment because of refusal to accept doctors' information (COP)
In University Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust v ST and others [2023] EWCOP 40 the Court of Protection held that a 19-year-old suffering from a progressively degenerative and incurable mitochondrial disorder, lacked capacity to litigate and to make her own decisions in relation to her future medical treatment, including a proposed move to palliative care, because she did not believe the information given by her doctors.
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Published on 05-Sep-2023
Resource Type Legal update: case report
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