Following the recent – deeply troubling – case involving Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, Hayden J has had to grapple with a further case … Read More ›
Author: Alex RK
Further to the judgment in Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v H [2020] EWCOP 5, discussed here, it has become clear that the … Read More ›
Registration for the 10th Essex Autonomy Project Summer School is now open. The EAP Summer School is an annual 3 day event, held each July … Read More ›
The Tribunal Procedure Committee has opened a consultation, closing on 7 April, on extending the window within which the Mental Health Tribunal (in England) can list … Read More ›
Welcome to the February 2020 Mental Capacity Report, which is, even by our standards, a bumper one. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, … Read More ›
In QJ v A Local Authority Hayden J was considering the situation of an 87 year old man with vascular dementia challenging a DoLS authorisation … Read More ›
In Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v H [2020] EWCOP 5, the delay in bringing and then resolving an application relating to medical … Read More ›
The independent review of mental health law in Scotland under the chair of John Scott QC has launched its website, and also a consultation, running … Read More ›
The Independent Review of Learning Disability and Autism in Scotland’s mental health legislation has published two important reports to sit alongside its final report and … Read More ›
In GSTT & SLAM v R [2020] EWCOP 4, Hayden J has come back to the extremely thorny question of what the court is meant to … Read More ›