7. ‘ Judges are given the appalling task of weighing up issues of immense sensitivity on which they have received little training – medicine, parental love, ethics and often religion’ Marcel Berlins The Guardian 23 March 2009
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10. ‘ Court battle over hospital that wants to let baby die’ 26 September 2004
11. ‘ I’m hoping for a miracle,’ says Charlotte’s father. 2 October 2004
12. ‘ I can really think of little that would be worse than for a child to be intubated and die in the course of futile treatment, or, worse still, in the course of futile treatment while futile legal proceedings were on foot’ Mr Justice Hedley
13. The Baby OT case Parents ‘deeply distressed’ by court ruling to switch off life-support for their boy 21 March 2009
14. The Baby OT case Parents may sue hospital over right-to-die battle 23 March 2009
19. Mediation in the medical arena ‘ This plaque is dedicated to the memory of children and pre-viable babies who died and from whom organs were wrongly retained in former times. This dedication acknowledges the role of parents in bringing about appropriate change’ Memorial plaque, Alder Hey
20. ‘ There are potential advantages to using mediation in disputes about critical care decisions in neonatal medicine…’
21. A new approach Litigation Mediation Adversarial Consensual Inflexible Flexible Backward-looking Forward-looking Externally imposed judgment Mutually agreed solution Time-consuming Relatively quick Very costly Relatively cheap
