Stewart, CameronFaunce, Thomas2015-12-132015-12-130025-729Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/81403• Relatives may increasingly demand that an incompetent patient's treatment be continued indefinitely, despite clinical advice that it is technically "futile" (offering no reasonable prospect of return to a meaningful quality of life). Third-party inter© Copyright 2005. The Medical Journal of Australia –reproduced with permission.Keywords: article; Australia; brain injury; case report; clinical practice; competence; conflict; court; female; frequency analysis; human; jurisprudence; law suit; male; medical decision making; medical ethics; medicolegal aspect; patient care; politics; quality o20052015-12-11