Mother fails to win right to control treatment for son

If parents and doctors are in “grave” conflict over a child's treatment, the court must be asked to decide, England's most senior civil judge said last week.

Lord Woolf, master of the rolls, and two other appeal court judges were refusing a request by the mother of a severely handicapped boy for a declaration that doctors could not treat her son or withhold treatment from him against her will.

The judges refused Carol Glass the declaration …