The June 2021 Mental Capacity Report will shortly be making its way to subscribers. The walkthrough is here: Highlights this month include: (1) In the … Read More ›
Author: Alex RK
The DHSC has today (11 June 2021) published 6 more factsheets about the LPS 1. Liberty Protection Safeguards: criteria for authorisation (June 2021) 2. Liberty … Read More ›
In Caamaño Valle v Spain [2021] ECHR 387, the European Court of Human Rights hardened yet further its stance that those with cognitive impairments can … Read More ›
What happens when the paperwork authorising a deprivation of liberty under the DoLS regime repeatedly refers to the wrong person? This question was posed before … Read More ›
Medical Treatment of Children and the Law (Jo Bridgeman, Routledge, 2021, hardback £120, ebook, c. £25) In this book, importantly subtitled “Beyond Parental Responsibilities,” Jo … Read More ›
Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings (Bernadette McSherry and Yvette Maker, eds., Routledge, 2021, hardback £120, ebook, c. £25) This edited volume arises … Read More ›
As discussed in my shedinar on capacity fundamentals, one of the most common sources of unnecessary complexity in thinking about whether a person has capacity … Read More ›
A NHS Foundation Trust v An Expectant Mother [2021] EWCOP 33 has attracted considerable discussion. The case concerned an expectant woman aged 21 with what … Read More ›
In this ‘in conversation’ with Alix Lewer, founder of Include.org, we discuss the work of the Include choir, the role of music in supporting those … Read More ›
When and how does the concept of fluctuating capacity apply in the context of sexual relations? This was the question confronting Knowles J in Re … Read More ›