Dopo Charlie e gli altri “casi Gard”, ripartiamo da alcune domande

[Machine translation] The article briefly reviews the judicial case of Charlie Gard, the English child suffering from a rare genetic disease considered incurable, whose best interest has been identified by the courts of the United Kingdom in the interruption of life support treatments, based on a request in this regard promoted by the hospital where he was hospitalized, against the will of the parents to attempt an experimental treatment and to transfer him abroad. The Gard case, similar to the subsequent events of Isahia Haastrup and Alfie Evans, calls for attention to the limitations faced by public authorities and, ultimately, the judicial one in replacing their assessment of the best interests of the minor child with that made by the parents when keeping the child alive is under discussion. From this point of view, the decisions of the English courts, but also of the European Court of Human Rights (referred to by parents), raise more than one question.