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Doctors can switch off brain-damaged five-year-old Pippa Knight’s life support, High Court judge rules Pippa’s mother Paula Parfitt had wanted her daughter to be kept alive by doctors Mr Justice Poole heard from hospital bosses the girl should be allowed to die He sided with them to overrule Ms Parfitt’s wishes to say treatment could … Read more
A cyclist could be awarded up to £50,000 after successfully suing a woman when her dog ran in front of him, causing a crash which left him brain damaged. David Crane says he suffered a brain haemorrhage when he flew over the handlebars after braking to avoid Carina Read’s cocker spaniel on Acton Green Common … Read more
Baby girl is left brain-damaged after hospital allowed mid-wife who was ‘banned for incompetence’ to help deliver her A baby girl was left with cerebral palsy after a midwife banned delivered her Barts Health Trust in London admitting legal responsibility for the blunders Sophie Addo, 58, was ‘excluded’ from working in the hospital just days earlier … Read more
Father of brain-damaged baby Midrar Ali calls for inquest into his son’s death as boy’s life-support system is switched off after family lost court fight Earlier this year, judges concluded that Midrar Ali was brain-stem dead They ruled that doctors could lawfully stop providing life-support treatment His father Karwan Ali says his son has now been … Read more