In a case from December 2023 which arrived on Bailii too late for the February 2024 Mental Capacity Report, Lieven J has confirmed something which … Read More ›
Category: Case comments
In Paul and another v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1, the Supreme Court had to decide whether (and, if so, when) an individual … Read More ›
Strasbourg means what it says in relation to the tightening of the criteria for admission and detention in the context of mental disorder that has … Read More ›
In lieu of a Mental Capacity Report, the next edition of which will be out in February, and which will have further coverage of the … Read More ›
A Local Authority v KP [2023] EHWC 3210 (Fam) is a case not easily reducible to a short summary. In very broad outline, however, it … Read More ›
A Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v K [2023] EWCOP 59 concerned the treatment for leukaemia of a patient detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. … Read More ›
In The NHS Foundation Trust v K [2023] EWCOP 57, Judd J had to consider an application for declarations with respect for K, a young … Read More ›
Paul Bowen KC, sitting as a Tier 3 Judge, helpfully restated the interaction between the MCA and the ECHR in the medical treatment context in … Read More ›
In Stockport MBC v KB [2023] EWCOP 58, HHJ Burrows addressed two questions in relating to ‘community DoL’ applications that have bubbled away for some … Read More ›
In Devon Partnership NHS Trust v SSHC [2021] EWHC 101 (Admin), handed down on 22 January 2021, the Divisional Court held that “the phrases “personally seen” in … Read More ›