Confirmation hot off the press (15 June) that both case management and s.49 reports are to start on 1 September. They can be found here, … Read More ›
Author: Alex RK
Today (15 June) is the 10th World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, and therefore the ideal opportunity to highlight Action on Elder Abuse. The conference that they are hosting … Read More ›
Addressing Vulnerability in Justice Systems (ed Penny Cooper and Linda Hunting, Wildy, Simmons and Hill, 2016, hardback, £19.95) This very reasonably priced collection of essays from … Read More ›
A quick plug for this MSc course being run jointly by the Departments of Law and Psychiatry at Queen Mary University of London on which … Read More ›
Highlights this month include: 1. In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: Neil Allen comments on the Law Commission’s interim statement, Charles J … Read More ›
The Essex Autonomy Project has just published a major report entitled “Towards Compliance with CRPD Art.12 in Capacity/Incapacity Legislation across the UK.” It follows a … Read More ›
A reminder that there are only a couple of weeks to go until the 3rd annual MHLA COP conference in Manchester on 24 June. … Read More ›
The Law Commission has just published an interim report upon its Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty project, to which I am on secondment. The … Read More ›
In Staffordshire County Council v SRK & Ors [2016] EWCOP 27, Charles J has grappled with the thorny question of when the state’s positive obligations … Read More ›
My admirable colleague Tor Butler-Cole is co-organising with Leigh Day solicitors and speaking at this seminar on 13 June on use of physical intervention and … Read More ›