Declaration

05 May 2017

Issue: 7744 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court

Re SW [2017] EWCOP 7, [2017] All ER (D) 96 (Apr)

The Court of Protection deemed an application for authority to remove transplantable material for the purpose of transplantation as totally without merit, misconceived and vexatious. The proposed donor’s capacity had not been established, the donee had not been consulted and the medical practitioner proposed to carry out the treatment had been removed from the medical register.

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