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.
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‘The baby has to come out’: Court-authorised caesarean when subject-matter and litigation capacity are disputed
By Ruby Reed-Berendt, 3rd March 2023 Editorial update: The woman in this case has more recently (in October 2023) been the applicant in a case before the Family Division of the High Court, concerning vaccination of her baby son, now 9-month-old, and in the care of the local authority under an interim care order. She asked theContinue reading “‘The baby has to come out’: Court-authorised caesarean when subject-matter and litigation capacity are disputed”
Court-authorised caesarean section for a mother with sickle cell disease who wants her baby to “see her face first”
I was struck when RO said “I don’t want to kill my baby”. I was already feeling disappointed for RO throughout the hearing, but these words left me feeling extremely sad for her. Was she feeling like the clinicians involved in her care were viewing her as killing her baby?
Capacity and elective caesarean
By Samantha Halliday, 26 January 2022 I have written extensively about court-authorised obstetric intervention[i] but I’ve always relied upon reported decisions. I am acutely aware that as Rosie Harding has commented: “When only the judgment is available for academic scrutiny, we cannot be clear as to the ways that the various submissions were framed”. That being the case,Continue reading “Capacity and elective caesarean”
Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection 