Doctors who treated children in end-of-life cases can be named after parents’ win

Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the Supreme Court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell their story”.
Isaiah Haastrup, aged 12 months, and six-year-old Zainab Abbasi were at the centre of life support treatment disputes at the High Court in London before their deaths in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
During the proceedings, court orders were put in place barring doctors involved in the children’s care from being publicly named indefinitely.
Giving the ruling, President of the Supreme Court Lord Reed said the need for restriction of freedom of speech must be “established convincingly”, and that it was not by the NHS trusts in the case.
Isaiah suffered “catastrophic” brain damage after being deprived of oxygen at birth and died in March 2018.

Source: BBC | Language: English