The NHS Trust v MB

Charles Foster, instructed by Alexander Harris, acted for the parents in the headline-making case of MB, the 18 month old child suffering from spinal muscular atrophy. All the treating clinicians and all the experts in the case thought that it was in the child's best interests for artificial ventilation to be withdrawn, allowing him to die. The parents disagreed. After a trial lasting 6 days the judge ordered that the benefits of continued life outweighed the detriments, and that the child should continue to be ventilated.

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