The text focuses on the issue of interference with personal integrity of a person and judicial consent as the legal justification authorizing in certain cases to perform an intervention which breaches the integrity. It analyzes the notion of integrity and ambiguities or controversies which it may bring.
Furthermore, the text discusses whether termination of a continuing procedure affecting body or mind of the person concerned could, as such, also constitute an act of interference with integrity. Preconditions for the associated judicial procedure are considered, together with criteria which should guide the court.