Charles Cooper | Barrister

Category: medical

R v. HM Coroner for Manchester City [2026] EWHC 810

In a claim for judicial review, the Coroner ‘…did not err in leaving out of account the neurological evidence of an appropriate treatment plan…’ but ‘contextualised the evidence and brought an appropriate focus to bear on the key issues that most clearly, on the evidence, might have contributed to… death’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2026/810
Read more: R v. HM Coroner for Manchester City [2026] EWHC 810
Townsend v. Epsom NHS Trust [2026] EWCA Civ 195

‘Any decision about the care and treatment of a mentally incapacitated adult, including the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, must be taken in the patient’s best interests… If there is disagreement, “a court application can and should be made”… The hospital cannot pre-empt court proceedings by unilaterally withholding or withdrawing treatment on “clinical” grounds’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2026/195
Read more: Townsend v. Epsom NHS Trust [2026] EWCA Civ 195
GMC v. Gilbert & Anor [2026] EWCA Civ 53

Where ‘a judge has identified that there were factors which the MPT wrongly left out of account when they decided that suspension was a sufficient sanction’ it is not ‘incumbent upon him to explain why those factors did not move the appropriate sanction across the threshold from suspension to erasure’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2026/53
Read more: GMC v. Gilbert & Anor [2026] EWCA Civ 53

Category: medical

R v. HM Coroner for Manchester City [2026] EWHC 810

Townsend v. Epsom NHS Trust [2026] EWCA Civ 195

GMC v. Gilbert & Anor [2026] EWCA Civ 53