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 ›
Category: Legislative developments
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
The “refreshed” (ie corrected and updated) statutory guidance has now been published. It takes account of regulatory changes, feedback from stakeholders and the care sector … Read More ›
Here is the link to a further iteration of the transparency guidance accompanying the pilot, dealing with anonymisation of local authorities and other matters. This … Read More ›
Following feedback that the procedure being adopted to ensure that parties were anonymised was perhaps a little too over-zealous, new guidance has been issued. If … Read More ›
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 ›
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 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 ›