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Are children capable of making life-changing decisions?

18 September 2021

9:05 AM

18 September 2021

9:05 AM

Keira Bell is a name that will be remembered. Like Victoria Gillick before her, she argued in the High Court that minors could not consent to certain medical treatment. But that is where their paths differ. In 1983, Gillick lost when the High Court ruled that girls under 16 could be prescribed birth control without parental consent.

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