“Steadying the ship”: Vice President’s judgment will list factors to consider before making applications for declaratory relief in life-sustaining treatment cases under the Mental Health Act

By Sydney White, 24th June 2026 The grave facts of this case (COP 20033278, before Mrs Justice Theis on 23rd June 2026) are discussed in a previous blog (Anorexia, declaratory protection and the Mental Health Act: Ventilating a jurisdictional question following Townsend). In summary it concerns a woman (“P”) who suffers from anorexia nervosa and isContinue reading ““Steadying the ship”: Vice President’s judgment will list factors to consider before making applications for declaratory relief in life-sustaining treatment cases under the Mental Health Act”