Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000479/2003 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 31 January 2003.
1. On Friday, 31 January of this year, the first day of the Lunar New Year holidays, an urgent application was made to me by the Hospital Authority for a declaration to authorise doctors at the Prince of Wales Hospital to carry out an emergency caesarean section on a patient whom I will refer to as Madam C.