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young people (Wheeler 2006). It is also common to refer to the ‘mature minor principle’. For a child to be ‘Gillick competent’ he or she must have “suficient understanding and intelligence to enable him or her to understand fully what is proposed”. This must be assessed on a case-by-case basis depending on the nature of the treatment

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