Re A

(1992) 3 Med LR 303

FAMILY DIVISION

and Mr Justice JOHNSON

Medical treatment — Jurisdiction — Child brain-stem dead — No medical issue whether or not child was dead or as to nature of injuries which had caused death — Interests of child, nursing and medical hospital staff — Court's jurisdiction to make declaration that child was dead for all legal, as well as medical, purposes, and that should medical staff consider it appropriate to disconnect child from ventilator, in so doing they would not be acting contrary to law