Talk:Tony Bland

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I'm not sure if this person is notable enough to warrant his own page... &#8465;ilver&#167;&#8465;ide 08:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * And there's so much on him I seriously doubt it should be still considered a stub. 141.157.111.10 21:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

95% of this article isn't about him it seems. I'm not sure what to do with this article. Metros232 22:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

It's an important legal ruling based on an exceptional case which is still referenced in the media today using his name ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6213546.stm ). Although it is less about his life than the legal wranglings around his death, those wranglings are important. However I cannot think of another way to wikify them, and as his name is still associated (as the above reference shows) I think his name should remain attached to this. Lone Architect 12:44 GMT, 6th December 2006


 * I think he probably is important enough to warrant his own page - he's used in medical curricula across the UK, for instance, as an example of the ethical dilemmas surrounding end-of-life care (e.g. is it possible a human being can have no best interest?) and is presumably also a feature of legal teaching.
 * On a related note, the references look pretty thorough to me - can anyone explain the "references" tag? Nmg20 19:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

not only is the case much discussed in medical, nursing and legal courses, in the UK and other English speaking countries, the subject still causes controversy, see Schiavo case. PVS is not 'exceptional' there have been many treatment withdrawal cases in UK and USA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Musculusq (talk • contribs) 12:30, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

He is notable in the same sense that Rodney King is notable, ie. not for who he was as such, but for the circumstances to which his name is now permanently attached. Manning (talk) 23:12, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Rename?
Considering the above, might it be a good idea to rename this article to Airedale NHS Trust v Bland, and include the appropriate legal infoboxes? The court case, after all, is the most notable issue involved. Tevildo (talk) 21:06, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

As the page is about the case, the case name would seem the more appropriate title for the page. But there is a serious omission here: the arguments raised at first instance and in the Court of Appeal are mentioned, but nothing is said about the decision of the House of Lords.Ntmr (talk) 12:29, 28 April 2016 (UTC) On re-reading it is not even made clear that the case reached the House of Lords.

Link - Re B (A minor)
The link in the following sentence, Re B (a minor), doesn't seem to be the correct one in the context of this page. However, I can't find the correct wiki link for this particular case - can anyone else spot it please? "...to die'. A leading case was that of Re B (a minor).[1] That case...". This is under paragraph The law in England and Wales prior to Bland, Selective non-treatment of newborn babies. Narcosis17 (talk) 15:57, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

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Andrew Devine
If this guy is notable enough to have his own article due to surviving for about 4 years after the disaster, why doesn't Andrew Devine have one? 100.7.44.80 (talk) 18:15, 20 November 2022 (UTC)


 * For the record, I wanted to prod the Tony Bland article for not being notable, but I haven't because I've been proven wrong three times before. 100.7.44.80 (talk) 02:58, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Well there is your answer, RS think he is notable, thus WP does. Do RS consider Andrew Devine notable (see wp:n)? Slatersteven (talk) 13:04, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * And if you do not think a prod will work, then you should not be asking for a noncontested deletion, as even you are not that sure it would fail AFD. Slatersteven (talk) 13:53, 13 December 2022 (UTC)