| Abuse of Gillick precedent SupportiveArgument1 #4603 Intended execptions to the Gillick precedent been distorted into a principle that anyone over 13 can consent to sharing sensitive personal information without the involvement of their parents. |
"The Gillick precedent establishes that a child’s parents should normally be involved in matters of consent, but that, exceptionally, the child may exercise the consent function to the exclusion of the parent if he or she insists on it and has the maturity to understand the consequences. This has been routinely turned into a principle that anyone over 13 can consent to sharing sensitive personal information without the involvement of their parents."
Source: fipr Report, p.2. |