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Z v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust & Ors [2020] EWCOP 69 A decision by Mr Justice Cohen in the Court of Protection, which reiterated his previous decision to end life sustaining treatment for RS, an unconscious man in a vegetative state. This application had been brought by RS’s estranged birth family, who argued that RS would wish to be kept alive based on his Catholic faith and who sought to move him to Poland. Background RS is a middle-aged Polish man who, after suffering a cardiac arrest on 6 November 2020, has at best a 10-20% chance of progressing to the lowest end of a minimally conscious state (called MCS-minus). At that state, he might have been able to acknowledge the presence of a human being, but without being able to demonstrate knowing who they were. Prior to an application by the hospital responsible for RS s care – University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust – to the Court of Protection for permission to discontinue his life-sustaining treatment, RS was

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