Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20210623:08:24:00
Concluded that a child under the age of 16 is not in a position to give an informed consent to something which is life changing in that they might not actually understand what it might mean for them ten years down the line, if, for instance, it is around fertility or something similar. so the high court concluded that they could not weigh up this life changing impact, it said there was real uncertainty over the short and long—term consequences of the treatments, and that it could be properly described as experimental. now, the tavistock and portman nhs trust disagrees with that, and it is br...