Winspear v City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Subject Matter

HUMAN RIGHTS — Respect for private life — Interference with — Doctor placing do not resuscitate notice on record of patient lacking mental capacity without consulting carer mother — Breach of statutory requirements relating to incapable persons — Whether doctor’s decision breaching patient’s Convention right to respect for private life — Notice cancelled within ten hours on complaint by mother — Notice having no impact on patient’s treatment — Whether declaration that Convention rights breached just satisfaction — Whether damages to be awarded — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Mental Capacity Act 2005, s 4(7)

[2015] EWHC 3250 (QB); [2016] QB 691; [2016] 2 WLR 1089; [2015] WLR (D) 468, QBD

MENTAL DISORDER — Incapable person — Medical treatment — Doctor placing do not resuscitate notice on record of patient lacking mental capacity without consulting carer mother — Whether decision in breach of statutory requirements — Mental Capacity Act 2005, s 4(7)

[2015] EWHC 3250 (QB); [2016] QB 691; [2016] 2 WLR 1089; [2015] WLR (D) 468, QBD