FD25P00518 - [2025] EWHC 2247 (Fam)
Family Division of the High Court

FD25P00518 - [2025] EWHC 2247 (Fam)

Fecha: 29-Ago-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2247 (Fam)
Case No: FD25P00518
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
FAMILY DIVISION

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 29/08/2025

Before :

THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE MCKENDRICK

Between :

AN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Applicant

- and -

(1) J (by his Children's Guardian)

(2) A Council

(3) FO (by her litigation friend, the Official Solicitor)

Re J (A Child) (Withdrawal of Ventilation)

Respondent

Mr Conrad Hallin (instructed by DAC Beachcroft LLP) for the Applicant

Ms Susannah Johnson KC (instructed by Larcomes Legal Limited) for the First Respondent

Mr Anthony Hand (instructed by local authority solicitor) for the Second Respondent

Mr Steven Howard (instructed by Aldridge Brownlee Solicitors LLP) for the Third Respondent

Hearing date: 28 August 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 29 August 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE MCKENDRICK

This judgment was delivered in private. The judge has given leave for this version of the judgment to be published on condition that (irrespective of what is contained in the judgment) in any published version of the judgment the anonymity of the children and members of their family must be strictly preserved. All persons, including representatives of the media, must ensure that this condition is strictly complied with. Failure to do so will be a contempt of court.