The excellent VOICES project at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the NUI Galway is a really important project in the ‘operationalisation’ of the Convention … Read More ›
Author: Alex RK
A report has just been published by the Public Policy Institute for Wales for the Welsh Minister for Health and Social Services on how to … Read More ›
The February 2016 Newsletters are now available. Highlights this month include: In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Newsletter: Article 5, best interests and … Read More ›
My admirable Chambers colleague Tor Butler-Cole has prepared an unofficial annotated version of the Transparency Pilot order to assist explaining the procedure and the effect … Read More ›
At its meeting on 25 January 2016, the Ad Hoc Joint Committee to Consider the Mental Capacity Bill agreed to publish its Report on the … Read More ›
The GMC is consulting on a replacement to its current Confidentiality guidance, published in 2009. The guidance addresses, inter alia, the position in relation to those … Read More ›
In Birmingham City Council v D [2016] EWCOP 8, the sequel to a case discussed here, Keehan J has held: “however close the parents are to their … Read More ›
A reminder that the deadline for submission to the special edition on deprivation of liberty of the International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law is 31/01/2016. … Read More ›
The wonderful London Legal Support Trust are advertising for an Events and Development Executive (a new full time or 4 days a week, paid role within … Read More ›
The Transparency Pilot that we have covered previously is now finalised and will be starting on 29 January (NB, this means that the first pilot … Read More ›