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Lawyer of the week - Victoria Butler-Cole (The Times)

Victoria Butler-Cole, of 39 Essex Chambers, acted for Lindsey Briggs in the High Court, which ruled that her husband, the Gulf War veteran Paul Briggs, could be moved to a hospice to receive palliative care only. It is the first time that a court has ruled that food and water be withdrawn from a clinically stable patient.

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