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“New courts with unprecedented powers of life and death over hospital patients will be given powers to sit in secret, ministers have declared” (Daily Mail 13th August 2006). “This decision means the first British court in 40 years to have the right to take life can sit behind closed doors if a judge thinks the proceedings should not be made public.”
“Robert Whelan of the Civitas think tank said ‘It will allow the courts to do anything and everything and nobody will ever find out.’ Disputes over the power of attorney that allows a patient to give someone else the right to kill them will also be heard in the Court of Protection.” The Court will sit in several major cities.
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