Birkett v Director General Of Family and Community Services
(1994) 5 Med LR 411
SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, EQUITY DIVISION
and Justice John BRYSON
Medical treatment — Consent — Necessity — Infant — Blood transfusion — Consent of parent withheld — Professional liability — Paediatrician — Blood transfusion — Treatment of child in urgent necessity — Care and protection by the State