High Court (Family Division), England and Wales, “Re E (A Minor) (Wardship: Medical Treatment) [1993] 1 FLR 386”
“should be very slow to allow a child to martyr himself”
Boy of 15¾ with leukaemia; treatment with blood products offered an 80-90% chance of remission; he and his parents refused; Ward J authorised treatment. He later refused blood on reaching majority and died.
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Provenance and verification note for High Court (Family Division), England and Wales, Re E (A Minor) (Wardship: Medical Treatment) [1993] 1 FLR 386
Confidence note. Judgment not opened (paywalled/unreported online). Wording and outcome taken from Ziebart, Denning Law Journal 2007 (opened) and the Law & Religion UK note (opened), which agree.
Corroborated by. src-dlj-2007-ziebart, src-lawreligionuk-2021-ef
Notes. Decision date 21 Sept 1990 per secondary sources; reported 1993.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-ewhc-1993-re-e