F (A Child) (Medical Treatment), Re [2025] EWHC 3311 (Fam)

Mr Justice McKendrick held that a local authority was right to bring an application concerning a do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation plan for a profoundly disabled child in its care. The judgment distinguishes between treatment that clinicians will not offer because it is clinically inappropriate and treatment that remains available but requires a best-interests decision.