Example sentences of "to consent to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There continues to be some doubt as to whether anyone has authority to consent to treatment in the case of an adult , in the absence of statute . |
| 2 | The court or parents for their part can refuse to consent to treatment A or B or both , but can not insist on treatment C. The inevitable and desirable result is that choice of treatment is in some measure a joint decision of the doctors and the court or parents . ’ |
| 3 | The court or parents for their part can refuse to consent to treatment A or B or both , but can not insist upon treatment C. The inevitable and desirable result is that choice of treatment is in some measure a joint decision of the doctors and the court or parents . |
| 4 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 5 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 6 | The argument that W. , or any other 16- or 17-year-old , can by refusing to consent to treatment veto the treatment notwithstanding that the doctor has the consent of someone who has parental responsibilities , involves the proposition that section 8 has the further effect of depriving such a person of the power to consent . |
| 7 | The most promising argument in favour of W. having an exclusive right to consent to treatment and thus , by refusing consent , to attract the protection of the law on trespass to the person , lies in concentrating upon the words ‘ as effective as it would be if he were of full age . ’ |
| 8 | I now prefer the analogy of the legal ‘ flak jacket ’ which protects the doctor from claims by the litigious whether he acquires it from his patient who may be a minor over the age of 16 , or a ‘ Gillick competent ’ child under that age or from another person having parental responsibilities which include a right to consent to treatment of the minor . |
| 9 | I accept that the words ‘ or not ’ in this passage suggest that Lord Scarman considered that the right to refuse treatment was co-existent with the right to consent to treatment . |
| 10 | In logic there can be no difference between an ability to consent to treatment and an ability to refuse treatment . |
| 11 | In those circumstances , the point had clearly been reached when the court should be prepared , in W. 's own interests , to overrule her refusal to consent to treatment , and we therefore ordered that she should be treated at the appropriate London unit . |
| 12 | The patient may elect for and consent to treatment B and thereby impliedly decline to consent to treatment A. Again there will be no problem . |
| 13 | Where the problem arises is in the comparatively rare situation in which an adult patient declines to consent to treatment which in the clinical judgment of those attending him is necessary if irreparable damage is not to be done to his health or , in some cases , if his life is to be saved . |
| 14 | The Commission is multi-disciplinary and it exists to provide independent medical opinions to consent to treatment ; to keep the powers of detention under review ; to prepare a Code of Practice ; and to visit and interview detained patients and investigate individual complaints . |
| 15 | In the progress to this climax bishops — particularly Stratford and Orleton — had been prominent : seeking his abdication , reporting his defiance , bullying him into acquiescence , and inducing parliament to consent to deposition lest doubts about his abdication remain . |