Melo v Superintendent of Royal Darwin Hospital

[2007] NTSC 71

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

Built by Barristers,
For Australian Law.

1. Injunction
2. › mandatory injunction
3. › parens patriae jurisdiction
4. › severely injured son of applicants
5. › no recovery likely
6. › application to extend order previously made to obtain further medial opinion
7. › no evidence further opinion likely to alter diagnosis and prognosis
8. › further treatment futile
9. › order refused.
1. Northbridge v The Central Sydney Area Health Service [2000] NSWSC 1241; (2000) 50 NSWLR 549; Messiha v South East Health [2004] NSWSC 1061, referred.