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This week’s High Court baby ruling (Charlie Gard) which has been widely publicised highlights that not only doctors but Judges can get it wrong too. The real issue is, who is the decision maker on behalf of this baby? Whether this baby should receive treatment abroad or not should rest with the parents who, in law, have parental responsibility to act in his bests interests. Unless it can be shown that the parents are not acting within the reasonable bounds of decision making it should not be for the doctors or for the Court to interfere. For the parents to exhaust every possible avenue (however small) to save their child is not unreasonable. However the doctor’s interference in preventing the parents from obtaining treatment (however remote its likely success) and labeling the parents as a “spanner in the works” speaks for itself. Would Aysha King be alive today if his parents had not refused to allow the doctors or indeed the Court to be the decision maker?