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A CAPACITOUS PATIENT’S CONSENT TO MEDICAL TREATMENT IS STILL FUNDAMENTAL, EVEN WHERE THE TREATMENT TAKES PLACE IN ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY

 By Kate McKinlay In the case of Anita Border v Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust [2015] EWCA Civ 8, recently heard by the Court of Appeal, a Senior House Officer in the Accident and Emergency Department commenced a treatment in the face of explicit protestation by the Claimant, and without discussing with her what her […]