Capacity to decide on contraception

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Z (by her Litigation Friend, The Official Solicitor) [2020] EWCOP 20

The Court of Protection has declared that Z, a 22-year-old woman who was 35 weeks pregnant in her fifth medically high-risk pregnancy, lacked capacity to make decisions about contraception. On that basis, the court concluded that it was in Z’s best interests to have an intrauterine contraceptive device inserted at the time of her planned caesarean section.