Patricia Rickard-Clarke has kindly given me permission to reproduce here the article that she wrote for the May edition of the 39 Essex Chambers Newsletter … Read More ›
Author: Alex RK
Unusually this month – but proving that we do not simply generate material for the sake of it – we do not have any Health, … Read More ›
Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland (Nicola Smith and Nairn R Young, ed Hilary Patrick, Bloomsbury Professional, 2016, paperback/ebook: c£44), and Vulnerable Adults and … Read More ›
The second of the ESRC funded ‘Safeguarding Adults and Legal Literacy’ (‘SALLY’) seminars with which I am involved investigating the impact of the Care Act … Read More ›
Alongside (but very much in second place to!) Sir Mark Hedley, I will be speaking at the Second Annual Medio-Legal Conference hosted by the University … Read More ›
In NHS Trusts v C [2016] EWCOP 17, C was detained under s.2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 with bipolar affective disorder. She was … Read More ›
April’s offerings are now available here. Highlights include: 1. In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: Charles J and the DOL impasse, sex … Read More ›
In the London Borough of Southwark v KA & Ors [2016] EWHC 661 (Fam), Parker J had to grapple – again – with the question … Read More ›
Mental disability law (including both mental health law and mental capacity law) in the UK has come into its own in recent years, and there … Read More ›
I am speaking at the Court of Protection Practitioners Association London Sub-Group event on 20 April on News from the Rule Committee. Also speaking, on the … Read More ›