The Law Reports (Family Division)
[2003] Fam 83
Family Division
Simms v Simms and another
A v A (A Child) and another
[2002] EWHC 2734 (Fam)
2002 Dec 5,
6,
11,
17;
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss P
Medical practitioner
— Medical treatment, consent to
— Experimental treatment
— Patient lacking capacity to consent due to incurable neurodegenerative disease
— Proposed treatment experimental and untested on humans
— Application for declaration that lawful to administer such treatment
— Whether in patient's best interests