to Charlie's best interests." Savulescu, "This delay, if caused by the ethics process, would be another example of 'lethal ethics. It has been argued that Charlie's best interests would have been better served had the experimental treatment been administered at GOSH in January. Prof. Savulescu, in a paper entitled "The Moral of the Case of Charlie Gard: Give Dying Patients Experimental Treatment ... Early" Prof. Wilkinson later came to a similar view. "In retrospect, it would have been better for Charlie to have received the requested treatment 6 months ago than to have a protracted legal dispute (with continued treatment in intensive care anyway)." By 6 July, a few days before the second evidential hearing of the case, Prof. Wilkinson had aligned himself with Savulescu's utilitarian view. but his view remained that "the doctors were right to oppose experimental treatment for Charlie in January, the judges were right to decline the family's request for treatment in April, and [that] it would be deeply ethically problematic to provide the treatment now". He cites two reasons for these views; "Experimental treatment for Charlie Gard is associated with significant side effects such that it is highly likely not to be in his interests to provide it." and that "in January [the Doctors] could not have predicted that 6 months and 4 court judgments later treatment would still be continuing". Summary of judgements Explanatory notes References External links Charlie's Fight, family website Smith-Squire, Alison (parents' media representative). Charlie Gard—a family's real life story in the spotlight, FeatureWorld. GOSH's position statement (pdf), hearing on 13 July 2017 GOSH press release 22 July 2017 Position Statement on behalf of the parents of Charlie Gard 24 July (pdf) GOSH's position statement (pdf), hearing on 24 July 2017 Guardian ad Litem's Position Statement 24 July (pdf) GOSH's position statement (pdf), hearing on 25 July 2017 GOSH press release 27 July 2017 Judgments Family Division, Mr Justice Francis judgment 11 April 2017 (transcription published May) Court of Appeal (Civil) judgment 23 May 2017 Supreme Court judgment 19 June 2017 European Court of Human Rights 3 July 2017 Family Division, Mr Justice Francis judgment 24 July 2017 2017 controversies 2017 in British law 2017 in London Medical controversies in the United Kingdom Medical lawsuits