FP Re Y [2018] UKSC 46

Represented Y, through the Official Solicitor, a middle-aged man in a prolonged disorder of consciousness in an appeal to the Supreme Court. The court held that obtaining an order under the Mental Capacity Act is unnecessary where a family and treating clinicians agree that clinically assisted nutrition and hydration should be withdrawn from an incapacitous adult in a prolonged disorder of consciousness. Led by Richard Gordon QC.