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Capacity: Maturity test
In the first of a two-part analysis, Debbie Stringer examines how the courts approach Gillick competence in relation to a child’s capacity ‘Where a court has to make a decision where the rights of the child and the rights of the parents conflict, the child’s rights must be the paramount consideration.’ In two recent judgments …
Cases Referenced
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- A (A Child) [2014] EWHC 1445 (Fam)
- Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [1985] UKHL 7
- Hewer v Bryant [1970] 1 QB 357
- Mabon v Mabon & ors [2005] EWCA Civ 634
- R (on the application of Axon) v Secretary of State for Health & anor [2006] EWHC 37 (Admin)
- Re KP (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 554
- Re W (children) (abuse: oral evidence) [2010] EWCA Civ 57; [2010] UKSC 12
- Venables & anor v News Group Newspapers Ltd & ors [2001] EWHC QB 32
- X (a child) [2014] EWHC 1871 (Fam)
- Yousef v The Netherlands [2002] ECHR 716