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Judge May
has been working in the conflict- ridden High
Court Family Division for twenty
years and is greatly admired by her colleagues
for her “divine detachment” and “razor-sharp
intelligence. “ In this court ,where fierce child custody and inheritance battles are fought amidst irrational outbursts of anger, she tries to restore reason
to those hopeless cases using
reason and pragmatism .
In the
course of her work she finds herself having to
rule on the case of Adam Henry, a
handsome 17 year-old Jehovah’s Witness who refuses a potentially life –saving
blood transfusion and is supported both
by his family and his religious
community in his decision. She calls upon the rational power of her role and her personal ethics to “ protect the well-being of the
minor” as the Children Act dictates
so much
so that she goes against the will of the minor
himself and his family. Putting her professional ethics to
one side, Fiona decides to meet
the adolescent . Due to her fragile
emotional state, she lets herself get involved but only
up to
a certain point, beyond which it is the young man himself, who
is now of age, that will have
to make his decisions on his own
in the harshest of ways.
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