An urgent caesarean application in a disturbing case

She went to Somalia to be with her grandmother, and she returned to the UK in July 2025.  When she arrived at hospital the following month, having had a fall, clinicians realised she was eight months pregnant.

On care, coercion and childbirth in the Court of Protection

By Ruth Fletcher, 5th July 2021 The decision in ‘An Expectant Mother’ is unsettling on many levels, not least because it takes a harsh legal approach when a care-full one is needed.  Instead of paying even more attention to the experience of the agoraphobic pregnant woman at the heart of this case, somehow the judgment has endedContinue reading “On care, coercion and childbirth in the Court of Protection”