The Weekly Law Reports
[2025] 2 WLR 815
Supreme Court
Abbasi and another v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Haastrup
v
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
[2025] UKSC 15
2024 April 15, 16; 2025 April 16
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Briggs, Lord Sales, Lord Stephens JJSC
Children— Injunction— Jurisdiction— NHS trust bringing proceedings under inherent jurisdiction of High Court for declaration that withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in best interests of child— Whether High Court having jurisdiction to grant injunction prohibiting naming of clinicians involved in child’s care— Whether High Court having jurisdiction to continue such injunction after child’s death— Whether NHS trust having standing to seek continuation of injunction to protect clinicians—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 6(1), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10