27 Apr 2007
AUCKLAND DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD V AZ AND BZ HC AK CIV-2007-404-2260
- Citation
- openlaw-71b80366_abcc_4e29_b087_7884446c9156.pdf
- Court
- High Court
Applying the Care of Children Act paramountcy of the child's welfare, the Court found that urgent intensive chemotherapy offered Z a realistic chance of survival and that there was a substantial and imminent likelihood that such treatment would necessitate blood or blood product transfusion; because parental refusal would place Z at high risk of death and the treatment was in her best interests the Court lawfully appointed the doctors as agents to consent to and administer chemotherapy and necessary transfusions and placed Z under the guardianship of the Court for the treatment period.