The race against time continues to prevent the machines that keep them alive from being disconnected Indi Gregory. The 8-month-old girl is hospitalized in Nottingham Hospital for a rare and serious mitochondrial disease for which there is no cure. For this reason, appealing to the ethical principles of “non-therapeutic obstinacy”, the doctors and the High Court decided to disconnect the machinery to avoid “unnecessary suffering”. The judge handled the case of the English girl in court Robert Peel.
Since 2020, Mr Justice Peel has been appointed as a High Court judge on the retirement of Dame Judith Parker and has been assigned to the Family Division, where he still works. Born in Singapore in 1966, he graduated in law from Oxford and since 1990 has been officially a lawyer registered with the English bar. There are no other relevant proceedings in his career that have stirred public opinion like that of the little girl hospitalized in Nottingham. There is only news of a provision from March 2020, shortly after being included as a judge of the High Court, in which he calls to order the lawyers of a woman who came to trial with her husband in a case of divorce. A formal element, one for which Peel has made headlines in the legal field but not in the “real world”.
An approach deriving from his long militancy in the financial field, as he specializes in particular in disputes related to the financial aspects of family law and not in cases with a health profile such as the one in which he is now involved. Since 2022, in fact, Peel has been chief judge of the Financial Remedies Court And this very technical and intransigent approach of his could say a lot about his positioning in the Gregory case, where Mr Justice Peel is adhering to a literal interpretation of the law. There are various positions against his involvement in this case, which is so delicate and concerns an aspect in which the judge does not specialize.
His decision regarding Indi Gregory is leading to heated discussions in the United Kingdom, where there are many who do not accept that he has established that the “best interest” of the little girl is to die in the territories of the English Crown, rather than trying a different approach in Italy. Our country, in fact, urgently granted citizenship to the little girl to allow her to move to our country but Judge Peel rejected once again the family’s requests, preventing the little girl from returning to her home. The High Court presided over by Peel ruled that the little girl can only be transported to a hospice in the event of discharge from hospital and not home, which would have facilitated transport to Italy.
2023-11-09 13:07:00
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