The final report of the Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law project has now been published. Led by Dr Camillia Kong, and in … Read More ›
Author: Alex RK
In May 2022, the Ministry of Justice indicated in its response to the Modernising Lasting Powers of Attorney consultation that it intended to bring forward … Read More ›
If you are a lawyer in England & Wales and need a reason to join the indefatigable charity INQUEST, the members-only seminar for the INQUEST … Read More ›
A paper that I have written with Allegra Enefer has been published in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. As we put it in … Read More ›
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Whilst the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was thinking of rather different matters to clinical dilemmas, it is … Read More ›
Prompted by a number of situations recently in which I have been concerned that professionals may not always know how to read a Court of … Read More ›
Compulsory Mental Health Interventions and the CRPD (Anna Nilsson, Hart, 2021 hardback/paperback/eBook, c.£75/£33; and The Right to be Protected from Committing Suicide (Jonathan Herring, Hart, … Read More ›
In a rather spectacular coup, Community Care reported on 28 October 2022 that LPS implementation was due in October 2023, based upon a report to … Read More ›
In this ‘in conversation with,’ I talk to PhD student David Mason about the research that the King’s College London ReSpect Lab is undertaking with … Read More ›
I am joined, not in the shed (under repair), by Professors Jill Stavert and Colin McKay, both members of the executive team of the Scottish … Read More ›