Defining the limits of parental authority: Charlie Gard, best interests and the risk of significant harm threshold

Auckland, Cressida Claire ORCID: 0000-0002-4376-0013 and Goold, I (2018) Defining the limits of parental authority: Charlie Gard, best interests and the risk of significant harm threshold. Law Quarterly Review, 134 (Jan). 37 - 42. ISSN 0023-933X

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Abstract

Examines Great Ormond Street Hospital v Yates (CA) on whether the court had the inherent jurisdiction to rule that it was not in the best interests of a child suffering from mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome for his parents to take him to the US where a doctor was willing to administer experimental nucleoside therapy, given that his UK medical team believed this would be futile and that life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn instead.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/Produc...
Additional Information:	© 2019 Thomson Reuters
Divisions:	Law School
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA1001 Forensic Medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine
Date Deposited:	18 Oct 2019 13:27
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 10:05
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/102153

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