07 Aug 2024
“Mum was heavily drugged when she changed her will and disinherited me.” Which case won?
In January 2020, at the age of 92, a woman was hospitalised with a life-threatening leg condition.
During the day she underwent two unsuccessful procedures to restore blood flow to the leg, and at about 2pm she was given anaesthetic agents and other drugs.
Around 6:30pm, the doctors informed her that she required emergency surgery on her leg, and she signed a consent form for that surgery.
However, immediately before her scheduled 8pm surgery, the woman adamantly refused consent to the operation unless she could change her will.
