1.   A patient can refuse consent for a particular treatment at any time.

2.   The content or subject of an advertisement is not relevant, and a local authority cannot refuse express consent on grounds of morality, offensiveness or taste.

3.   Ultimately, it is a question of who, commercially, is to take the risk that a consent may be refused.

4.   In that case, however, the officer had advised the passenger that he could refuse consent.

5.   Spanish newspapers said the government may make the state aid payment without commission clearance, should the commission refuse its consent.

6.   When Bennett refused consent to search the building, the officers obtained a warrant and found several items that could be used to make methamphetamine.

7.   Lebanon has been refusing consent to the United Nations to fully deploy to the border, maintaining Israel first must end violations of Lebanese territory.