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- Im going to to talk to you today about the law around children and their autonomy in relation to medical care, particularly very unwell children who refuse treatment. So let me start with an example. So imagine youre a judge on call and a hospital comes to you with a terrible dilemma. Theyre treating a very ill child. Hes only 15 years old, 15 years 10 months to be precise. He has leukemia and he needs medications to hopefully help him get better. Now, if he has the conventional treatment, theres an 80 to 90% chance he will go into full remission, hell be fine. And theres an alternative treatment thatll only give them a 60% chance of remission, but theres a problem. Taking some of the conventional medicines will mean he will need a transfusion of blood and he and his family have made it clear that he doesnt want to transfusion because its against his faith as a Jehovahs Witness. The hospital have been respecting this, theyve been giving him alternative treatment instead,
