KEY - MAGISTRALE MID-MODULE TEST

KEY

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.