E (Mrs) v Eve

E (Mrs) v Eve
Supreme Court of Canada
Hearing: June 4–5, 1985 Judgment: October 23, 1986
Full case name	Eve, by her Guardian ad litem, Milton B. Fitzpatrick, Official Trustee v. Mrs. E.
Citations	[1986] 2 S.C.R. 388
Docket No.	16654 [1]
Prior history	Judgment for Mrs. E. in the Court of Appeal for Prince Edward Island.
Ruling	appeal allowed
Holding
A proxy decision-maker cannot consent to the non-therapeutic sterilization of a mentally incompetent person.
Court membership
Reasons given
Unanimous reasons by	La Forest J.

E (Mrs) v Eve, [1986] 2 S.C.R. 388 is a judgment by the Supreme Court of Canada regarding a mother's request for the consent of the court to have her disabled daughter sterilized. This was a landmark case which is influential in Canadian legal decisions involving proxy-consented, non-therapeutic medical procedures performed on people of diminished mental capacity.