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Child – Medical treatment. A 19-month-old child choked on some food and, after being taken to the applicant NHS Trust, was placed on life support. His Saudi parents, who were Muslim, were against turning off life support after he was assessed to be brain dead. The Family Division held that death had been established and granted a declaration that the ventilator be turned off. Further, the court considered that it could not conceive of any circumstances in which a coroner should seek to intervene where a body remained ventilated, beyond those circumstances concerning the removal of organs where the family were consenting
Child – Medical treatment. A 19-month-old child choked on some food and, after being taken to the applicant NHS Trust, was placed on life support. His Saudi parents, who were Muslim, were against turning off life support after he was assessed to be brain dead. The Family Division held that death had been established and granted a declaration that the ventilator be turned off. Further, the court considered that it could not conceive of any circumstances in which a coroner should seek to intervene where a body remained ventilated, beyond those circumstances concerning the removal of organs where the family were consenting
The Bar Council will press for investment in justice at party conferences, the Chancellor’s Budget and Spending Review
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To mark the fifth anniversary of the Bar Standards Board’s Race Equality Taskforce, Dee Sekar reflects on key milestones, the role of regulation in race equality, and calls for views on the upcoming equality rules consultation
Christianah Babajide talks to four female senior clerks who share insights for aspiring clerks, especially women, as well as their hopes for the future of the profession
Daniel Barnett serves up a host of summer shows
Britain needs to get over its shameful denial of racism, call it what it is and start to effectively deal with the problem, says Vithyah Chelvam
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